 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...for the 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 small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society. The proper performance of those... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pages
...such works, in short, as Adam Smith pronounces it the duty of a sovereign to 'erect and maintain' — works ' which, though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, arc, however, of such a nature as that the profit could never repay the expense, and which it cannot... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...for the 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 small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society. The proper performance of those... | |
 | Emil Sax - 1887 - 614 pages
...Motivirung seiner dritten Classe von Ausgaben des Staates: „Public works and public institutions, which, though they may be in 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... | |
 | Emil Sax - 1887 - 614 pages
...advantageous to a great society, are, howcvcr, of such a nature, thattho profit could never repay the expenso to any individual, or small number of individuals,...it therefore cannot be expected that any individual should erect or maintain." Man sieht: eine durchaus ökonomische Charakteristik einer Art von Staatsausgaben,... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 182 pages
...for the 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 small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society. The proper performance of these... | |
 | 1888 - 950 pages
...be for the 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 small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society." The State is required to protect... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 pages
...be for the 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 small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society." The State is required to protect... | |
 | John Rae - 1891 - 532 pages
...be for the 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 small number of individuals. though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society." The State is required to protect... | |
 | Charles Francis Bastable - 1892 - 704 pages
...for the 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 small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society V It is only necessary to read... | |
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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... 
