An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With a comm. by the author of 'England and America' (E.G. Wakefield).1839 |
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Side 14
... established , every militia - man is , even in time of peace , attached to a particular body of troops , which perform its exercises under its own proper and permanent officers . Before the invention of fire - arms , that army was ...
... established , every militia - man is , even in time of peace , attached to a particular body of troops , which perform its exercises under its own proper and permanent officers . Before the invention of fire - arms , that army was ...
Side 23
... established themselves upon the ruins of the Western empire , continued for some time to be of the same kind in their new settlements , as it had been in their original country . It was a militia of shepherds and husbandmen , which , in ...
... established themselves upon the ruins of the Western empire , continued for some time to be of the same kind in their new settlements , as it had been in their original country . It was a militia of shepherds and husbandmen , which , in ...
Side 29
... establishing an exact administration of justice , requires two very differ- ent degrees of expense in the different periods ... established magistrate , or any regular administra- tion of justice . Men who have no property can injure one ...
... establishing an exact administration of justice , requires two very differ- ent degrees of expense in the different periods ... established magistrate , or any regular administra- tion of justice . Men who have no property can injure one ...
Side 34
... established . The authority of an Arabian scherif is very great ; that of a Tártar khan altoge- ther despotical . The fourth of those causes or circumstances is the superiority of birth . Superiority of birth sup- poses an ancient ...
... established . The authority of an Arabian scherif is very great ; that of a Tártar khan altoge- ther despotical . The fourth of those causes or circumstances is the superiority of birth . Superiority of birth sup- poses an ancient ...
Side 36
... establish authority and subordination among men . Among nations of shepherds both those causes operate with their full force . The great shepherd or herdsman , respected on account of his great wealth , and of the great number of those ...
... establish authority and subordination among men . Among nations of shepherds both those causes operate with their full force . The great shepherd or herdsman , respected on account of his great wealth , and of the great number of those ...
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Side 141 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Side 141 - In the progress of the division of labour [employments], the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments.
Side 291 - By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Side 214 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Side 111 - The endowments of schools and colleges have necessarily diminished more or less the necessity of application in the teachers. Their subsistence, so far as it arises from their salaries, is evidently derived from a fund altogether independent of their success and reputation in their particular professions.
Side 151 - The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders. An instructed and intelligent people, besidesj are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and Stupid one.
Side 217 - Secondly, it may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance -and employment to great multitudes. While it obliges the people to pay, it may thus diminish, or VOL. v. u perhaps destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so.
Side 2 - According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to — three duties of great importance, indeed, but plain and intelligible to common understandings: first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it or the duty of establishing an exact administration of justice;...
Side 283 - Every increase or diminution of capital, therefore, naturally tends to increase or diminish the real quantity of industry, the number of productive hands, and consequently the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, the real wealth and revenue of all its inhabitants.
Side 39 - Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor...