 THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with...  The Quarterly review - Page 3661829Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1829 - 590 pages
...society is at present constituted, placed in circumstances which preclude the possibility of attaining an independence, however small, for themselves in case...the necessaries and conveniences which it consumes.' liut the labourers, those from whose hands issue all wealth, arc themselves left with empty hands;... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...CAUSES OF TUB WEALTH OF NATIONS. INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OP THE WORK. J- UK annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and convenwttcies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate... | |
 | Charles Ganilh - Comparative economics - 1812 - 504 pages
...celebrated writer. Indeed Adam Smith in one place states, that " the "annual labour of every nation is the fund which " originally supplies it with all the necessaries and " conveniences of life, which it annually consumes, " and which consist always either in the immediate " produce of... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...in defence of this assertion. In one place Adam Smith says, " that the annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life, which it annually consumes ; and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that... | |
 | 1830 - 436 pages
...counteract. And this is the lot of those who fahricate all the wealth of the country. " The lahour of every nation," says Adam Smith, " is the fund which...necessaries and conveniences which it consumes." But the lahourers, those from whose hands issue all the wealth, are themselves left with empty hands ; those... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1830 - 420 pages
...and the employment of Machinery, By the celebrated Dr. A SMITH*. " THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist either in the immediate produce of that labour,... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...collected on one spot. — Edward*. SECTION II. PRODUCTIVE LABOUR. THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that... | |
 | James Anthony Lawson - Economics - 1844 - 168 pages
...is in the progress of society * In the words of Adam Smith — " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life, which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster - Ireland - 1846 - 994 pages
...which tends to paralyze productive labour in a community as certainly insures poverty. " The annual labour of every nation," says Adam Smith, " is the...supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that... | |
 | Travers Twiss - Business & Economics - 1847 - 358 pages
...Adam Smith, at the opening of his treatise, laid it down, that " the annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that... | |
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