An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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... cultivated than those of Poland . But though the poor country , notwithstanding the inferiority of its cultivation , can , in some measure , rival the rich in the cheapness and goodness of its corn , it can pretend to no such ...
... cultivated than those of Poland . But though the poor country , notwithstanding the inferiority of its cultivation , can , in some measure , rival the rich in the cheapness and goodness of its corn , it can pretend to no such ...
第 21 頁
... cultivate and bring to perfection whatever talent or genius he may possess for that particular species of business . The difference of natural talents in different men is , in reality , much less than we are aware of ; and the very dif ...
... cultivate and bring to perfection whatever talent or genius he may possess for that particular species of business . The difference of natural talents in different men is , in reality , much less than we are aware of ; and the very dif ...
第 27 頁
... cultivated and improved to any con- siderable degree . Upper Egypt extends itself nowhere above a few miles from the Nile , and in Lower Egypt that great river breaks itself into many different canals , which , with the assistance of a ...
... cultivated and improved to any con- siderable degree . Upper Egypt extends itself nowhere above a few miles from the Nile , and in Lower Egypt that great river breaks itself into many different canals , which , with the assistance of a ...
第 56 頁
... cultivation , should gain both the rent of the landlord and the profit of the farmer . He is apt to denominate , however , his whole gain , profit , and thus con- founds rent with profit , at least in common language . The greater part ...
... cultivation , should gain both the rent of the landlord and the profit of the farmer . He is apt to denominate , however , his whole gain , profit , and thus con- founds rent with profit , at least in common language . The greater part ...
第 75 頁
... cultivated , most industrious , and most populous countries in the world . It seems , however , to have been long stationary . Marco Polo , who visited it more than five hundred years ago , describes its cultivation , industry , and ...
... cultivated , most industrious , and most populous countries in the world . It seems , however , to have been long stationary . Marco Polo , who visited it more than five hundred years ago , describes its cultivation , industry , and ...
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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...