An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 161 頁
... consumer 4d . and 44d . the pound ; and the coarse pieces in general to be from seven farthings to 22 d . and 234d .; and this they said was in general one half - penny dearer than the same sort of pieces had usually been sold in the ...
... consumer 4d . and 44d . the pound ; and the coarse pieces in general to be from seven farthings to 22 d . and 234d .; and this they said was in general one half - penny dearer than the same sort of pieces had usually been sold in the ...
第 206 頁
... consumers may , by the rise in the price of provisions . It would be quite other- wise , however , in an unimproved and uncultivated country , where the greater part of the lands could be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of ...
... consumers may , by the rise in the price of provisions . It would be quite other- wise , however , in an unimproved and uncultivated country , where the greater part of the lands could be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of ...
第 207 頁
... consumers very little . The fall in the price of the wool and the hide , would not in this case raise the price of the carcase ; because the greater part of the lands of the country being applicable to no other purpose but the feeding ...
... consumers very little . The fall in the price of the wool and the hide , would not in this case raise the price of the carcase ; because the greater part of the lands of the country being applicable to no other purpose but the feeding ...
第 226 頁
... consumers , but which are not yet entirely consumed . The whole stock of mere dwelling - houses too subsisting at any one time in the country , make a part of this first portion . The stock that is laid out in a house , if it is to be ...
... consumers , but which are not yet entirely consumed . The whole stock of mere dwelling - houses too subsisting at any one time in the country , make a part of this first portion . The stock that is laid out in a house , if it is to be ...
第 228 頁
... and distributed to their proper consumers : Secondly , of the stock of provisions which are in the pos- sion of the butcher , the grazier , the farmer , the corn- merchant , the brewer , & c . and from 228 WEALTH OF NATIONS.
... and distributed to their proper consumers : Secondly , of the stock of provisions which are in the pos- sion of the butcher , the grazier , the farmer , the corn- merchant , the brewer , & c . and from 228 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...