An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 13 頁
... obliged to attempt it , will scarce , I am as- sured , be able to make above two or three hundred nails in a day , and those too very bad ones . A smith who has been accustomed to make nails , but whose sole or principal busi- ness has ...
... obliged to attempt it , will scarce , I am as- sured , be able to make above two or three hundred nails in a day , and those too very bad ones . A smith who has been accustomed to make nails , but whose sole or principal busi- ness has ...
第 14 頁
... obliged to change his work and his tools every half hour , and to apply his hand in twenty different ways almost every day of his life ; renders him almost always slothful and lazy , and incapable of any vigorous application even on the ...
... obliged to change his work and his tools every half hour , and to apply his hand in twenty different ways almost every day of his life ; renders him almost always slothful and lazy , and incapable of any vigorous application even on the ...
第 22 頁
... obliged to sup- port and defend itself , separately and independently , and derives no sort of advantage from that variety of talents with which nature has distinguished its fellows . Among men , on the contrary , the most dissimilar ...
... obliged to sup- port and defend itself , separately and independently , and derives no sort of advantage from that variety of talents with which nature has distinguished its fellows . Among men , on the contrary , the most dissimilar ...
第 24 頁
... obliged to apply themselves to all the different branches of industry that have so much affinity to one an- other as to be employed about the same sort of materials . A country carpenter deals in every sort of work that is made of wood ...
... obliged to apply themselves to all the different branches of industry that have so much affinity to one an- other as to be employed about the same sort of materials . A country carpenter deals in every sort of work that is made of wood ...
第 30 頁
... obliged to buy salt to the value of a whole ox , or a whole sheep , at a time . He could seldom buy less than this , because what he was to give for it could seldom be divided without loss ; and if he had a mind to buy more , he must ...
... obliged to buy salt to the value of a whole ox , or a whole sheep , at a time . He could seldom buy less than this , because what he was to give for it could seldom be divided without loss ; and if he had a mind to buy more , he must ...
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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...