The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nationsT. Cadell, 1811 |
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第 364 頁
... trade . In this ftate of things , it seems impof- fible , that either of thofe empires could have been fo much ... colony . While Portugal was under the dominion of Spain , Brazil was attacked by the Dutch , who got VII . got poffeffion of ...
... trade . In this ftate of things , it seems impof- fible , that either of thofe empires could have been fo much ... colony . While Portugal was under the dominion of Spain , Brazil was attacked by the Dutch , who got VII . got poffeffion of ...
第 368 頁
... trade to Surinam upon paying two and a half per cent . upon the value of ... colony at present enjoys . Curaçoa and Euftatia , the two princi- pal ... colony of Canada was , during the greater part of the laft century , and fome part of ...
... trade to Surinam upon paying two and a half per cent . upon the value of ... colony at present enjoys . Curaçoa and Euftatia , the two princi- pal ... colony of Canada was , during the greater part of the laft century , and fome part of ...
第 376 頁
... trade of the colonies to all the natives of the mother country , provided they traded from the proper port , at the proper season , and in the proper veffels . But as all the different mer- chants , who joined their ftocks in order to ...
... trade of the colonies to all the natives of the mother country , provided they traded from the proper port , at the proper season , and in the proper veffels . But as all the different mer- chants , who joined their ftocks in order to ...
第 382 頁
... colony hips carrying home from them any manufactures which could interfere with our own . The enumerated commodities are of two forts : firft , fuch as are either the ... trade , of which Great Britain was neceffarily 382 OF COLONIES .
... colony hips carrying home from them any manufactures which could interfere with our own . The enumerated commodities are of two forts : firft , fuch as are either the ... trade , of which Great Britain was neceffarily 382 OF COLONIES .
第 385 頁
... trade of her colonies has been confined chiefly to what concerns the market for their produce , either in its rude ... colony produce , the mer- chants and manufacturers of Great Britain chufe to referve to themfelves , and have ...
... trade of her colonies has been confined chiefly to what concerns the market for their produce , either in its rude ... colony produce , the mer- chants and manufacturers of Great Britain chufe to referve to themfelves , and have ...
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第 181 頁 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
第 181 頁 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he 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.
第 16 頁 - It tends therefore to increase the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country. It puts into motion an additional quantity of industry, which gives an additional value to the annual produce.
第 2 頁 - That subject, or, what is the same thing, the price of that subject, can afterwards, if necessary, put into motion a quantity of labour equal to that which had originally produced it. The labour of the menial servant, on the contrary, does not fix or realize itself in any particular subject or vendible commodity. His services generally perish in the very instant of their performance, and seldom leave any trace or value behind them for which an equal quantity of service could afterwards be procured.
第 182 頁 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
第 186 頁 - Whether the advantages which one country has over another be natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence. As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter rather to buy of the former than to make.
第 484 頁 - It is a very singular government in which every member of the administration wishes to get out of the country, and consequently to have done with the government, as soon as he can, and to whose interest, the day after he has left it and carried his whole fortune with him,* it is perfectly indifferent though the whole country was swallowed up by an earthquake.
第 244 頁 - Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.
第 22 頁 - The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived...
第 80 頁 - According to the natural course of things, therefore, the greater part of the capital of every growing society is, first, directed to agriculture, afterwards to manufactures,. and last of all to foreign commerce.