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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... seems to have been in vogue before the tenth century , except in so far as the Roman law may have sanctioned the latter in the form of Substitutions and Fidei Commissa . The ex- treme rigidity of the English and Scottish medieval custom ...
... seems to have been in vogue before the tenth century , except in so far as the Roman law may have sanctioned the latter in the form of Substitutions and Fidei Commissa . The ex- treme rigidity of the English and Scottish medieval custom ...
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... seems to have been very general in England from the time of the Black Death in 1348 to nearly the middle of the following century , when it was superseded on one side by tenant farmers and on the other by ' peasant proprietors . ' Down ...
... seems to have been very general in England from the time of the Black Death in 1348 to nearly the middle of the following century , when it was superseded on one side by tenant farmers and on the other by ' peasant proprietors . ' Down ...
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... seem to have been taxes of the same nature of the taille , pp . 395-97 . Under all these discouragements little improvement could be expected from the occupiers of land , who , with all the security which law can give , must always ...
... seem to have been taxes of the same nature of the taille , pp . 395-97 . Under all these discouragements little improvement could be expected from the occupiers of land , who , with all the security which law can give , must always ...
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... seem to have been a poor set of people , resembling the pedlars and hawkers of the pre- sent times , subject to certain taxes , known by the names of passage , pontage , lastage , and stallage . Sometimes the king , sometimes a great ...
... seem to have been a poor set of people , resembling the pedlars and hawkers of the pre- sent times , subject to certain taxes , known by the names of passage , pontage , lastage , and stallage . Sometimes the king , sometimes a great ...
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... seem to have been introduced in two different ways . ( 1 ) They are some- 1 This statement is exaggerated , so far as England is concerned . See Rogers's note . As to the refuge afforded to serfs , see Hallam , Middle Ages , cap . viii ...
... seem to have been introduced in two different ways . ( 1 ) They are some- 1 This statement is exaggerated , so far as England is concerned . See Rogers's note . As to the refuge afforded to serfs , see Hallam , Middle Ages , cap . viii ...
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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