 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature, that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, and which it therefore cannot be expected that any individual or small number of individuals should... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature, that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, and which it therefore cannot be expected that any individual or small number of individuals should... | |
 | Emile de Laveleye - 1884 - 332 pages
...number of individuals, to erect and maintain, because the profit could never repay the expense to them, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society." ( Wealth of Nations, bk. iv. ch. ix. ad JLn.) Examples of such works and institutions are light-houses,... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 196 pages
...interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain, because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual, or...repay it to a great society. The proper performance of these several duties of the sovereign necessarily supposes a certain expense, and this expense again... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 184 pages
...individuals, to erect and maintain, because the profit could never repay the expense to anyindividual, or small number of individuals, though it may frequently...repay it to a great society. The proper performance of these several duties of the sovereign necessarily supposes a certain expense, and this expense again... | |
 | 1887 - 506 pages
...number of individuals, to erect and maintain ; because the profit could never repay the expense of any individual, or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to the great society.' The duties here enumerated, specially those we have italicised, leave a large margin... | |
 | Emil Sax - 1887 - 614 pages
...the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature, thattlie profit could never repay the expense to any individual, or small number of individuals, and which it thercfore cannot be expected that any individual should erect ormaintain." Man sieht:... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 pages
...interest of any individual or small number of individuals to erect and maintain ; because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or...do much more than repay it to a great society." The State is required to protect us from other evils besides the evils of force and fraud — infectious... | |
 | 1888 - 950 pages
...interest of any individual or small number of individuals to erect and maintain : because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or...do much more than repay it to a great society." The State is required to protect us from other evils besides the evils of force and fraud — infectious... | |
 | John Rae - 1891 - 570 pages
...interest of any imdividual or small number of individuals to erect and maintain ; because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or...do much more than repay it to a great society." The State is required to protect us from other evils besides the evils of force and fraud—infectious... | |
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... the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain, because the profit could never repay the expense... 
