 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 pages
...of great importance, indeed, but plain and intelligible to common understandings : first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies ; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 520 pages
...Commonwealth. CHAP. I. ''•',' Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth. PART I. • • . f ! Of the Expense of Defence. THE first duty of the sovereign,...the society from the violence and invasion of other t independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force. But the expense both of... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...ЭГ THE EXPENSES OF THE SOVEREIGN' OK COMUO4WEALTH. Of the EtjHnte of Defence. THE 6rst duty of tlie sovereign, that of protecting the society from the...violence and invasion of other independent societies, can hv performed only by means of я military forcv. Hut the expense Ixjth of preparing this military force... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 506 pages
...OP THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH. CHAPTER I. Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth. PAHT FIRST. Of the Expense of Defence. THE first duty of...violence and invasion of other independent societies, can he performed only by means of a military force. But the expense both of preparing this military force... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1852 - 112 pages
...accord. According to that system, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to : first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies ; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice... | |
 | 1855 - 390 pages
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 | 1855 - 514 pages
...Political Economy, to his chapter on the duties and expenses of the sovereign. He begins thus: — "The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting...can be performed only by means of a military force." Again he says: — "The art of war, however, as it is certainly the noblest of all arts, so in the... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1857 - 510 pages
...accord. According to that system, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to : first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies ; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...of great importance, indeed, but plain and intelligible to common understandings : first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies ; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1880 - 274 pages
...THE SOVEREIGN, OR COMMONWEALTH. CHAPTEK I. Of the Expenses of the Sovereign, or Commonwealth. PART I, Of the Expense of Defence. THE first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence of independent societies, can be performed only by military force, the expense of which is different... | |
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According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to — three duties of great importance, indeed, but plain and intelligible to common understandings: first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence... 
