 | Adam Smith - 1786 - 538 pages
...fcarce admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolizing fpirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind,...difturbing the tranquillity of any body but themfelves. THAT it was the fpirit of monopoly which originally both invented and propagated this do&rine, cannot... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1789 - 550 pages
...fcarce admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolizing fpirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind,...difturbing the tranquillity of any body but themfelves. THAT it was the fpirit of monopoly which originally both invented and propagated this doclrine, cannot... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1795 - 402 pages
...admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the ** monopolizing fpirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither " are nor ought to be the rulers of mankind, though it cannot per" haps be corrected, may very eafily be prevented from difturbing " the tranquillity of any body... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1801 - 362 pages
...admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolizing fpirit of merchants and manufacturer s, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind, though it cannot perhaps becorrected, may very eafily be prevented from difturbing the tranquillity of any body but themfelves.... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 662 pages
...naturally to be among nations " as among individuals, a bond of union and " friendfhip, has become the mod fertile " fource of difcord and animofity. The capri"...be corrected, may very eafily be *' prevented from diflurbing the tranquillity " of any body but themfelves." Such are the liberal principles which, according... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 550 pages
...fcarce admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolizing fpirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind,...difturbing the tranquillity of any body but themfelves. That it was the fpirit of monopoly which originally both invented and propagated this doctrine, cannot... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, '• the monopolizing spirit of merchants and manufacturers, " who neither are nor ought to be the rulers of mankind,..." though it cannot perhaps be corrected, may very easily be " prevented from disturbing the tranquillity of any body but " themselves." Such are the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 596 pages
...of ** a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the " monopolizing fpirit of merchants and ma" nufa6turers, who neither are nor ought to " be the rulers of mankind, though it cannot " perhaps be correcled, may very eafily be " prevented from dislurbing the tranquillity ** of any body but themfelves."... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 852 pages
...manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind, though it cannot perhaps be correfted, may very eafily be prevented from difturbing the tranquillity of any body but themfelves. That it was the Ipirit of monopoly which originally both invented and propagated this doctrine, cannot... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...scarce admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are nor ought to be the rulers of mankind, though it cannot perhaps be corrected, may very easily be prevented from disturbing the tranquillity of any body but tkemselves." Such are the liberal... | |
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor... 
