 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 368 頁
...security. Even Adam Smith, so eminently the praises of free-trade and economic science, observes— " As defence, however, is of much more importance than...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." Yet it has been allowed to pass away ! At the present time it is useless to inveigh against the Act... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1864 - 450 頁
...upon that Act, such as that of buying foreign goods dearer and selling our own cheaper, he adds, " As defence, however, is of much more importance than...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." l The Navigation Act carried the animosity between England and Holland into open war. But more than... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 370 頁
...security. Even Adam Smith, so eminently the prseses of free-trade and economic science, observes — " As defence, however, is of much more importance than...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." Yet it has been allowed to pass away ! At the present time it is useless to inveigh against the Act... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 頁
...or to the growth of that opulence that can arise from it, remarking, " As defence is of more value than opulence, the Act of Navigation is perhaps the...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." But had Adam Smith lived in our time, he would have seen that the utmost freedom of commerce with foreign... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 616 頁
...afterwards, laws in 1849, as far as foreign trade was the press-gang, concerned, and in 1854, as regards the dearer, but to sell our own cheaper, than if there...the Act of Navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all commercial regulations of England. The second case, in which it will generally be advantageous to lay... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 870 頁
...to sell our own cheaper, than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defence, however, ie of much more importance than opulence, the Act of Navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all commercial regulations of England. The second case, in which it will generally be advantageous to lay... | |
 | sir John Barnard Byles - 1870 - 388 頁
...wise, however, as if they had all been "dictated by the most deliberate wisdom." And again: "As defence is of much more importance " than opulence, THE ACT...ALL THE COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS " OF ENGLAND."* The eminent success of this policy vindicated it in Adam Smith's time : its yet more triumphant success... | |
 | William Schaw Lindsay - 1876 - 712 頁
...favourable to tho growth of the opulence arising from foreign commerce. " As defence, however," ho adds, " is of much more importance than opulence, the Act...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." In another passage, Adam Smith says: "To expect, indeed, that freedom of trade should ever bo entirely... | |
 | Maurits Cornelis Tideman - 1877 - 244 頁
...diminish that of buyers, and are thus likely not only to buy foreign goods dearer, but to sell ou r own cheaper than if there was a more perfect freedom...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." (2) (i) Say, Traite d'Ec. Pol. I. 172, De Olercq, bl. 15 vlgg. Vrgl. Grovestins I. 176 vlg. Haar langdurig... | |
 | John Emelius Lancelot Shadwell - 1877 - 684 頁
...but he praises it because it dealt a blow at the naval power of Holland, and concludes by saying, " As defence, however, is of much more importance than...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." (Book iv., chap. 11). M'CulIoch, in an able note appended to his edition of the " Wealth of Nations,"... | |
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By diminishing the number of sellers, therefore, we necessarily diminish that of buyers, and are thus likely not only to buy foreign goods dearer, but to sell our own cheaper, than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defence, however, is... 
