An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 25 頁
... banks of navigable rivers , that industry of every kind natu- rally begins to subdivide and improve itself , and it is fre- quently not till a long time after that those improvements extend themselves to the inland parts of the country ...
... banks of navigable rivers , that industry of every kind natu- rally begins to subdivide and improve itself , and it is fre- quently not till a long time after that those improvements extend themselves to the inland parts of the country ...
第 26 頁
... banks of the navigable rivers , and have scarce any where extended themselves to any considerable distance from both . The nations that , according to the best authenticated his- tory , appear to have been first civilized , were those ...
... banks of the navigable rivers , and have scarce any where extended themselves to any considerable distance from both . The nations that , according to the best authenticated his- tory , appear to have been first civilized , were those ...
第 97 頁
... banks of navigable rivers . Such land too is frequently purchased at a price below the value even of its natural produce . Stock employed in the purchase and improvement of such lands must yield a very large profit , and consequently ...
... banks of navigable rivers . Such land too is frequently purchased at a price below the value even of its natural produce . Stock employed in the purchase and improvement of such lands must yield a very large profit , and consequently ...
第 117 頁
... bank- ruptcy . The presumptuous hope of success seems to act here as upon all other occasions , and to entice so many adven- turers into those hazardous trades , that their competition reduces the profit below what is sufficient to ...
... bank- ruptcy . The presumptuous hope of success seems to act here as upon all other occasions , and to entice so many adven- turers into those hazardous trades , that their competition reduces the profit below what is sufficient to ...
第 240 頁
... therefore require some further explication . There are several different sorts of paper money ; but the circulating notes of banks and bankers are the species which is best known , and which seems best adapted for 240 WEALTH OF NATIONS.
... therefore require some further explication . There are several different sorts of paper money ; but the circulating notes of banks and bankers are the species which is best known , and which seems best adapted for 240 WEALTH OF NATIONS.
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第 315 頁 - ... intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.* Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.
第 137 頁 - People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.
第 442 頁 - 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.
第 11 頁 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
第 129 頁 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
第 20 頁 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their selflove, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
第 52 頁 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
第 22 頁 - The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education.
第 137 頁 - But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.
第 17 頁 - What a variety of labour, too, is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen! To say nothing of such complicated machines as the ship of the sailor, the mill of the...