An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 252 頁
... bank of England was for many years together obliged to coin gold to the extent of between eight hundred thousand pounds and a million a year ; or at an › average , about eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds . For this great coinage the ...
... bank of England was for many years together obliged to coin gold to the extent of between eight hundred thousand pounds and a million a year ; or at an › average , about eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds . For this great coinage the ...
第 253 頁
... bank of England at the high price of four pounds an ounce . It was the newest , the heaviest , and the best pieces only which were carefully picked out of the whole coin , and either sent abroad or melted down . At home , and while they ...
... bank of England at the high price of four pounds an ounce . It was the newest , the heaviest , and the best pieces only which were carefully picked out of the whole coin , and either sent abroad or melted down . At home , and while they ...
第 253 頁
... bank of England was for many years together obliged to coin gold to the extent of between eight hundred thousand pounds and a million a year ; or at an , average , about eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds . For this great coinage the ...
... bank of England was for many years together obliged to coin gold to the extent of between eight hundred thousand pounds and a million a year ; or at an , average , about eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds . For this great coinage the ...
第 253 頁
... bank of England at the high price of four pounds an ounce . It was the newest , the heaviest , and the best pieces only which were carefully picked out of the whole coin , and either sent abroad or melted down . At home , and while they ...
... bank of England at the high price of four pounds an ounce . It was the newest , the heaviest , and the best pieces only which were carefully picked out of the whole coin , and either sent abroad or melted down . At home , and while they ...
第 262 頁
... banking trade which are here proposed . A ... bank notes , there was then more paper money in the country than at present . The proportion between the prices of provisions in Scotland and that in England , is the same now as before MONEY 263.
... banking trade which are here proposed . A ... bank notes , there was then more paper money in the country than at present . The proportion between the prices of provisions in Scotland and that in England , is the same now as before MONEY 263.
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advantage afford altogether annual produce artificers balance of trade bank bank of England bounty Britain capital carried cattle cent cheaper circulating capital circulation coin commerce commodities commonly consequence considerable consumers corn cultivation dealers declension demand diminish division of labour duties employed employment England equal Europe exchange expence exportation farmer foreign trade France frequently gold and silver importation improvement increase industry inhabitants interest joint stock companies kind land and labour landlord less maintain manner manufactures ment merchants metals money price nations natural natural price necessarily necessary obliged occasion paid paper money particular payment pence perhaps pound weight productive labour profits of stock proportion purchase quantity of labour raise real price regulated rent of land revenue rude produce Scotland sell shillings society sometimes sort sovereign subsistence sufficient supposed tion town trade of consumption wages of labour wealth whole wool workmen
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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...