An Inquiry Into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth: And Into the Means and Causes of Its IncreaseArch. Constable & Company, 1804 - 482 ページ |
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33 ページ - A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people in Europe, would have so little chance for a second husband, is there frequently courted as a sort of fortune.
291 ページ - A great part of the machines made use of in those manufactures in which labour is most subdivided, were originally the inventions of common workmen, who being each of them employed in some very simple operation, naturally turned their thoughts towards finding out easier and readier methods of performing it.
368 ページ - The ordinary means, therefore, to increase our wealth and treasure, is by foreign trade ; wherein we must ever observe this rule — to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value. For, suppose, that when this kingdom is plentifully served with...
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147 ページ - It is, as it were, a certain quantity of labour stocked and stored up to be employed, if necessary, upon some other occasion.
191 ページ - ... two things equal to one and the fame thing are equal to one another; but as it would probably happen, that the farmer and brewer had never...
23 ページ - ... the prices of goods are not according to " the quantity in proportion to the vent, but in proportion
289 ページ - This impossibility of making so complete and entire a separation of all the different branches of labour employed in agriculture, is perhaps the reason why the improvement of the productive powers of labour in this art, does not always keep pace with their improvement in manufactures.