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" By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. "
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 286
by Thomas Thomson - 1855
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The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources ...

Francis Bowen - 1856 - 590 pages
...principle is the only point in question. Thus he argues : " By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Lectures on political economy ... To ...

Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland ; and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources ...

Francis Bowen - 1859 - 586 pages
...principle is the only point in question. Thus he argues : " By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be...
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The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition: The Resources ...

Francis Bowen - 1859 - 576 pages
...principle is the only point in question. Thus he argues: u By means of glasses, hot-beds, and ho1>walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 42

1860 - 788 pages
...all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, and hot beds, and hot walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be bought...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. A careful ...

Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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Which? Protection, Free Trade, Or Revenue Reform: A Collection of the Best ...

H. W. Furber - 1884 - 554 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot- walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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Which? Protection, Free Trade, Or Revenue Reform: A Collection of the Best ...

H. W. Furber - 1884 - 540 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with thorn. By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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Economic aspects of recent legislation. (Newmarch memorial essay).

William Watt (of Aberdeen.) - 1885 - 198 pages
...illustration of the effect of this suicidal policy could be given than that of which Adam Smith made use. Very good grapes can be raised in Scotland and very good wine made from them, but at a much greater cost than that at which either the grapes or the wine can be...
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The Theory of International Trade: With Some of Its Applications to Economic ...

Charles Francis Bastable - 1887 - 198 pages
...absurdum of the mercantile theory, "very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense...at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries."27 In fact, there are many commodities which could not be produced in sufficient quantity,...
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