 No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce...  Land and Labor in the United States - Page 11by William Godwin Moody - 1883 - 360 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they \vho feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people,...should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tojerably well fed, clothed, and lodged, , Poverty, though it no doubt discourages,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Jt is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the...should have such a share of the, produce of their own labour .as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. Poverty, though it no doubt discourages,... | |
 | James Wade - 1818 - 396 pages
...which the far greater part of the members are poor find miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe,, and lodge the whole body of the...should have such a share of the produce of their own labours as to be themselves tolerably welt, fed, clothed, and lodged. • To drop all at once from... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...labourers, and workmen of different kinds," — he says incidentally, " it is but equity that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the...should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged;*" meaning evidently, from the context,... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1833 - 674 pages
...which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the...should have such a share of the produce of their own labour, as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged." — Wealth of Nations, bi ch.... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Margracia) - Economics - 1835 - 362 pages
...a sufficiency of all things so produced, for the use of the producers. " It is but equity that they who feed, clothe, and lodge, the whole body of the...should have such a share of the produce of their own labour, as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.-)-" If the raw produce is now... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...which the far greater part of the members arc poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should hnve such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be theinbelves tolerably well fed, clothed,... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1893 - 702 pages
...Smith has some views which it may be well to remember in this connection. "It is but equity that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the...have such a share of the produce of their own labor, us to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged." — Wealth of Nations, Book i. chap. 8.... | |
 | g. berger - 1840 - 326 pages
...which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the prodwce of their own labour, as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. Government... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Industrial relations - 1852 - 142 pages
...trust that there are far more who not only feel, with Adam Smith, that " it is but equity that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people,...should have such a share of the produce of their own labour, as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged ;" and wish the workmen to be animated... | |
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