The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 9T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1856 |
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... Grain for Home Consumption , 100 • SUBSECT . 3. Of the Trade carried on by the Merchant Ex- porter of Grain for Foreign Consumption , SUBSECT . 4. - Of the Trade of the Merchant Carrier , or Im- porter of Corn for future Exportation ...
... Grain for Home Consumption , 100 • SUBSECT . 3. Of the Trade carried on by the Merchant Ex- porter of Grain for Foreign Consumption , SUBSECT . 4. - Of the Trade of the Merchant Carrier , or Im- porter of Corn for future Exportation ...
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... Grain , APP . II . , A Conclusion to the first Three Books of Political Eco- nomy - strictly so called , 457 458 APP . III . , An earlier Conclusion to Politics Proper , 459 INDEX , 463 LECTURES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY . VOL . IX . A viii ...
... Grain , APP . II . , A Conclusion to the first Three Books of Political Eco- nomy - strictly so called , 457 458 APP . III . , An earlier Conclusion to Politics Proper , 459 INDEX , 463 LECTURES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY . VOL . IX . A viii ...
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... grain . Nor can it well be affirmed , that both are done with the same views . On the contrary , I may venture to assert , that , with the excep- tion of a few individuals , whose family pride interests them in the greatness of their ...
... grain . Nor can it well be affirmed , that both are done with the same views . On the contrary , I may venture to assert , that , with the excep- tion of a few individuals , whose family pride interests them in the greatness of their ...
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... grain imported into Great Britain , to that of all sorts of grain consumed , does not exceed that of one to five hundred and seventy . The average quantity of all sorts of grain exported from Great Britain does not , according to the ...
... grain imported into Great Britain , to that of all sorts of grain consumed , does not exceed that of one to five hundred and seventy . The average quantity of all sorts of grain exported from Great Britain does not , according to the ...
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... grain , butter , cheese , fish , or other dead victuals whatever , with intent to sell the same again , shall be holden or reputed an engrosser . " The penalties for these offences , as might be expected from the spirit of the age , are ...
... grain , butter , cheese , fish , or other dead victuals whatever , with intent to sell the same again , shall be holden or reputed an engrosser . " The penalties for these offences , as might be expected from the spirit of the age , are ...
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Page 25 - 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.
Page 388 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 26 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Page 27 - By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland...
Page 26 - 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.
Page 223 - 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.
Page 222 - In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Page 25 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone...
Page 86 - ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board...
Page 222 - 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.