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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... Rent . Taxes upon the Rent of Land 162 165 • • • · 166 • • • · • Taxes which are proportioned , not to the Rent , but to the Produce of Land . 170 Taxes upon the Rent of Houses 171 ARTICLE II . Taxes upon the Profit , or upon the ...
... Rent . Taxes upon the Rent of Land 162 165 • • • · 166 • • • · • Taxes which are proportioned , not to the Rent , but to the Produce of Land . 170 Taxes upon the Rent of Houses 171 ARTICLE II . Taxes upon the Profit , or upon the ...
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... rent to the landlord . When such far- mers have a lease for a long term of years , it may be their interest to lay out a part of their capital in im- provement . The possession of such farmers was and still is very precarious in many ...
... rent to the landlord . When such far- mers have a lease for a long term of years , it may be their interest to lay out a part of their capital in im- provement . The possession of such farmers was and still is very precarious in many ...
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... rents the lands of another becomes subject to it , the tax amounts to a prohibition to all gentlemen and substantial burghers from investing their stock in farming operations on any land but their own . The ancient tenths and fifteenths ...
... rents the lands of another becomes subject to it , the tax amounts to a prohibition to all gentlemen and substantial burghers from investing their stock in farming operations on any land but their own . The ancient tenths and fifteenths ...
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... rent , were allowed to collect it in their own way . At first the farm of a town was let for a term of years : afterwards it was granted to them in fee , that is for ever , reserving a rent certain never to be augmented . The payment ...
... rent , were allowed to collect it in their own way . At first the farm of a town was let for a term of years : afterwards it was granted to them in fee , that is for ever , reserving a rent certain never to be augmented . The payment ...
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... rent in no respect equivalent to the subsistence which the land afforded them.1 A sheep or a lamb was , some years ago , in the highlands of Scotland , a common rent for lands which maintained a family . Upon the authority which the ...
... rent in no respect equivalent to the subsistence which the land afforded them.1 A sheep or a lamb was , some years ago , in the highlands of Scotland , a common rent for lands which maintained a family . Upon the authority which the ...
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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