 What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of...  A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 286by Thomas Thomson - 1855Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 652 pages
...have occasion for. «•That which is prudence in the conduct of evafy private family, can scarcely be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply its try in these branches, they make for them -wives an'l families, a comfortable subsistence. They... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1820 - 312 pages
...the main proposition which we at present combat, and to which we here confine ourselves, is, that, " If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity...cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy of them, with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some... | |
 | David Ricardo - 1821 - 560 pages
...ourselves. But this opinion of Adam Smith is at variance with all his general doctrines on this subject. " If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity...employed in a way in which we have some advantage. The general industry of the country being always in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not... | |
 | George Brodie - 1822 - 570 pages
...price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great...employed in a way in which we have some advantage. The general industry of the country being always in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not... | |
 | J. C. Ross - 1827 - 486 pages
...ourselves can produceor manufacture it, better buy it from thence, with a part of the produce of our industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage. The general industry of the country, being in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not thereby... | |
 | Willard Phillips - 1828 - 286 pages
...interest to employ his whole industry in a way in which he has some advantage over his neighbours." So, " if a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1835 - 526 pages
...price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." The fact stated by Mr. Rae shows that this rule, like most others, is liable to exceptions. Where the... | |
 | 1835 - 520 pages
...price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." We may leave our author in calm possession of this conclusion. It turns, however, upon this, that in... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great...employed in a way in which we have some advantage. The general industry of the country, being always in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...they have occasion for. What is prudence in the concVct of every private family, can scarce bf ¿oily in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can...ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with «ome part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have M>me advantage. The... | |
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