 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...those tolls, have in many cases been very justly complained of. At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executingi in the cofiapletest manner, the work, which is often executed in a very -slovenly manner,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 520 pages
...those tolls, have in many cases been very justly complained of. At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary...slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all. The system of repairing the high roads by tolls of this kind, it must be observed, is not of very long... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1819 - 518 pages
...those tolls, have, in many cases, been very justly complained of. At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completes! manner, the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed... | |
 | Thomas Grahame - Railroads - 1834 - 234 pages
...level ground." After quoting from Dr. Adam Smith the following passage, on the British road trusts, " The money levied is more than double of what is necessary...slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all," Sir Henry Parnell adds, that the remark is now, in too many cases, as applicable as it was when made... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...essential particulars. Who is to blame for this ? Not the government, because the business has not been in its hands. The leading men of the commercial and...just as applicable now as it was when first made, sixty years ago. In those instances where a turnpike road is used merely for local purposes, however... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...those tolls, have in many cases been very justly complained of. At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completes! manner, the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - Railroads - 1847 - 460 pages
...life-like of all human creations, the Locomotive Engine. CHAPTER VI. THE MANAGEMENT OF TOWN ROADS. " The money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing in the completes! manner the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - Ireland - 1847 - 488 pages
...those tolls, have, in many cases, been very justly complained of. At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completes! manner, the work which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1852 - 400 pages
...life-like of all human creations. the Locomotive Engine. CHAPTER VI. THE MANAGEMENT OF TOWN ROADS. " The money levied is more than double of what is necessary...slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all." ADAH SMITH. A WISE and well-regulated system of managing the repairs of roads, and of obtaining the... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - Railroads - 1854 - 410 pages
...life-like of all human creations, the Locomotive Engine. CHAPTER VI. THE MANAGEMENT OF TOWN ROADS. " The money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing iu the completes! manner the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes... | |
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At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completest manner, the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all. 
