 | James Donaldson - Agriculture - 1796 - 446 pages
...GooD roads, canals, and navigable rivers, Dr Adam Smith very juftly obferves, " by diminifhing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with thofe in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the igreateft of all improvements.... | |
 | John Middleton (land surveyor) - Agriculture - 1798 - 722 pages
...corrobo. rates my opinion, as follows : " Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence " of carriage, put the remote parts of the...the neighbourhood of the town. They are, upon that ac" count, the greatest of all improvements." — Smith's Wealth of Nations. + " The encouragement... | |
 | John Middleton (land surveyor) - Agriculture - 1807 - 734 pages
...different parts of it, tends very * ' Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more...neighbourhood of the town. They are, upon that account, the greatest of all improvements."—Smith's Wctltk if fff ticnjt ' •, considerably to facilhate... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...therefore, must belong to the landlord. Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country...neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements. They encourage the cultivation of the remote, which must always be... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...therefore, must belong to the landlord. Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more...neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements. They encourage the cultivation of the remote, which must always be... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...therefore, muft belong; to the landlord. Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminifhing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon ac HA p. level with thofe in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the greateft... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1818 - 714 pages
...his Wealth of Nations, that good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by dirr.inifhing the expenfe of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with thofe in the neighbourhood of large towns ; and on that account they are the greatelt of all improvements.... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Commercial law - 1824 - 516 pages
...Nations, that good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, place the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of large towns, and on that account he says they are the greatest of all improvements. They encourage... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 452 pages
...navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, bring the remote parts of the country nearer to a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements. They encourage the cultivation of the remote, which must always be... | |
 | Edmund Leahy - Roads - 1844 - 348 pages
...forward with amazing rapidity. By diminishing the difficulties and expense of carriage, lines of road put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon...level with those in the neighbourhood of the town, and so they must contribute in a high degree to the advantage of town and country. They encourage the... | |
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Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements. 
