An analysis of Adam Smiths' Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, repr., with additions, from the 3rd ed. of J. Joyce's abridgement, revised and ed. by W.P. Emerton, Volume 21880 |
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... never yet been established in their towns.1 But in countries where land is dear every artificer who has acquired more stock than can be em- ployed in the neighbourhood endeavours to prepare work for more distant sale , p . 384 . For the ...
... never yet been established in their towns.1 But in countries where land is dear every artificer who has acquired more stock than can be em- ployed in the neighbourhood endeavours to prepare work for more distant sale , p . 384 . For the ...
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... never to be augmented . The payment becom- ing perpetual , the exemptions became perpetual too . The town therefore was called a Free Burgh , and the principal attributes of villainage and slavery being thus For this characteristic of ...
... never to be augmented . The payment becom- ing perpetual , the exemptions became perpetual too . The town therefore was called a Free Burgh , and the principal attributes of villainage and slavery being thus For this characteristic of ...
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... never entirely destroyed . Though the cities could not attain to independence , yet the sovereign could not impose any tax upon them without their consent . They therefore sent deputies to the general assembly of the states of the ...
... never entirely destroyed . Though the cities could not attain to independence , yet the sovereign could not impose any tax upon them without their consent . They therefore sent deputies to the general assembly of the states of the ...
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... never have effected . These furnished the great proprietors with something which they could consume themselves , without sharing it with their tenants . ' All for our- selves ' has been the vile maxim of the masters of the world . As ...
... never have effected . These furnished the great proprietors with something which they could consume themselves , without sharing it with their tenants . ' All for our- selves ' has been the vile maxim of the masters of the world . As ...
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... never pays the interest of the purchase - money , which prevents a number of capitals from being employed in the improvement of land . In America the purchase and improvement of land is the most profitable employment of a capital , and ...
... never pays the interest of the purchase - money , which prevents a number of capitals from being employed in the improvement of land . In America the purchase and improvement of land is the most profitable employment of a capital , and ...
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Adam Smith advantage ÆNEID agriculture America ancient artificers balance of trade bank money Bonamy Price bounty Britain capital cent Church civilised clergy coin College colony trade commerce commodities consumer consumption corn Crown 8vo cultivation debt defrayed duties East India empire employed employment England English equal established Europe expense exportation factures favour foreign trade former France fund gold and silver greater Hertford College importation imposed improvement increase industry interest JAMES THORNTON labour land-tax landlord levied Lord Lord Clive maintain manu manufactures ment mercantile merchants monopoly natural necessary occasion Oxford paid Political Economy Portugal profit prohibition proportion proprietors quantity QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES raise regulated render rent of land restraints revenue Rogers's note Roman ROMAN LAW rude produce seignorage society sovereign Spain Specimen standing army subsistence tenant THOMAS CLAYTON tion Translation Wealth of Nations whole