| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...managers rather of other peoples money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they mould watch over it with the fame anxious vigilance with...copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the Hewards of a rich man, they are apt to confider attention to fmall matters as not for their mafter's... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1801 - 448 pages
...managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expecled that they fhould watch over it with the fame anxious vigilance with...man , they are apt to confider attention to fmall matter* as not for their mafter's homjr, and very eafily give themfelves a difpenfation from having... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 520 pages
...people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private...copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters as not for their master's... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they thouM watch over it with the lame anxious vigilance, with which the partners in a private...a rich man, they are apt to confider attention to finall matters as not for their mailer's honour, and very eafily give themfelves a difpen&tion from... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private...copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a ricb man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters as not for their master's... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...that ; and garrisons, the sole purpose and pretext they should watch over ¡t with the same an\ious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters MS not for their master's... | |
| Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private...copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters as not for their master's... | |
| 1863 - 680 pages
...people's money than their own, it cannot wH be expected that they shall watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private...co-partnery frequently watch over their own. Like the steward of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to minor matters as not for their master's... | |
| Charles Henry Stephens - Corporation law - 1881 - 680 pages
...money, rather than their own, it cannot well be expected that they would watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private co-partnery frequently watch over theirs. It is on this account that Joint Stock Companies for foreign trade have seldom been able to... | |
| Arnold Toynbee - Economics - 1884 - 304 pages
...people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. . . . Negligence and profusion must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs... | |
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