An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen3J. Maynard, 1811 |
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... levied , beaver skins were estimated at six shillings and eight pence a - piece ; and the different subsidies and imposts which , before the year 1722 , had been laid upon their importation , amounted to one fifth part of the rate , or ...
... levied , beaver skins were estimated at six shillings and eight pence a - piece ; and the different subsidies and imposts which , before the year 1722 , had been laid upon their importation , amounted to one fifth part of the rate , or ...
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... levied upon the cultivators in almost all the provinces , discouraged and kept down the agri- culture of that country very much below the state to which it would naturally have risen in so very fertile a soil , and so very happy a ...
... levied upon the cultivators in almost all the provinces , discouraged and kept down the agri- culture of that country very much below the state to which it would naturally have risen in so very fertile a soil , and so very happy a ...
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... levying certain branches of the king's revenue . In those days , the administration of justice not only afforded a certain revenue to the sovereign , but , to procure this revenue , seems to have been one of the principal advantages ...
... levying certain branches of the king's revenue . In those days , the administration of justice not only afforded a certain revenue to the sovereign , but , to procure this revenue , seems to have been one of the principal advantages ...
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... levying of the king's re- venue , and for enforcing the payment of such debts only as were due to the king , took cognizance of all other contract debts ; the plaintiff alleging that he could not pay the king , because the defendant ...
... levying of the king's re- venue , and for enforcing the payment of such debts only as were due to the king , took cognizance of all other contract debts ; the plaintiff alleging that he could not pay the king , because the defendant ...
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... levied by that court , and ap- plied towards the maintenance of the judges , and other officers belonging to it , might , in the same manner , afford a revenué sufficient for defraying the expense of the adınistration of justice ...
... levied by that court , and ap- plied towards the maintenance of the judges , and other officers belonging to it , might , in the same manner , afford a revenué sufficient for defraying the expense of the adınistration of justice ...
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Página 28 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 67 - ... the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it...
Página 329 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Página 67 - ... the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain; because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.
Página 261 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Página 67 - Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.
Página 141 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters as not for their master's honour, and very easily give themselves a dispensation from having it. Negligence and profusion, therefore,...
Página 261 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Página 193 - In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations ; frequently to one or two.
Página 102 - Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.