An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 590 頁 |
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第 33 頁
... shilling , too , seems originally to have been the denomination of a weight . When wheat is at twelve shil- lings the quarter , says an antient statute of Henry III . , then wastel bread of a farthing shall weigh eleven shillings and ...
... shilling , too , seems originally to have been the denomination of a weight . When wheat is at twelve shil- lings the quarter , says an antient statute of Henry III . , then wastel bread of a farthing shall weigh eleven shillings and ...
第 41 頁
... shillings and pence have contained very nearly the same quantity of pure silver . This degrada- tion , therefore , in the value of the money rents of colleges , has arisen altogether from the degradation in the value of silver . When ...
... shillings and pence have contained very nearly the same quantity of pure silver . This degrada- tion , therefore , in the value of the money rents of colleges , has arisen altogether from the degradation in the value of silver . When ...
第 43 頁
... shillings the quarter . But when corn is at the latter price , not only the nominal , but the real value of a corn rent will be double of what it is when at the former , or will command double the quantity either of labour or of the ...
... shillings the quarter . But when corn is at the latter price , not only the nominal , but the real value of a corn rent will be double of what it is when at the former , or will command double the quantity either of labour or of the ...
第 46 頁
... shillings , or be a legal tender for a debt of that amount . In this state of things , and during the continuance of any one regulated proportion of this kind , the distinction between . the metal which is the standard , and that which ...
... shillings , or be a legal tender for a debt of that amount . In this state of things , and during the continuance of any one regulated proportion of this kind , the distinction between . the metal which is the standard , and that which ...
第 47 頁
Adam Smith. er raised to two - and - twenty shillings , all accounts being kept and almost all obligations for debt ... shilling , they are in the market considered as worth a shilling , and a shilling can at any time be had for them ...
Adam Smith. er raised to two - and - twenty shillings , all accounts being kept and almost all obligations for debt ... shilling , they are in the market considered as worth a shilling , and a shilling can at any time be had for them ...
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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...