 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
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 636 pages
...What is prudence in the conduct of a private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great nation. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity...employed in a way in which we have some advantage. The industry of the country is certainly not employed to the greatest advantage, when it is thus directed... | |
 | 1841 - 618 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... | |
 | 1841 - 614 pages
...else they have occasion for. " What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce he folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country...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... | |
 | 1882 - 878 pages
...Verschwendnng des Nationalkapitals, offenbar nach dem die Freihandelstheorie begründenden Smith'schen Satze : »If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves ean make it, better buy it of them with sorne part of the produce of our own industry , employed in... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...have recourse to the tailor and shoemaker as his necessities require. We may then fairly infer that if a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can produce it, we had better buy it of that country than waste our money in home production, otherwise... | |
 | 1846 - 620 pages
...frequently quoted sentences from Adam Smith — to •oppose encouragement to home industry — is, " 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 oicn industry, employed in... | |
 | Sir Robert Peel - 1849 - 82 pages
...clothes, but employs a tailor." He says, moreover, that " what is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." Now let us consider the case of two artisans or dealers resident in the same town. The shoemaker and... | |
 | Alexander Marjoribanks - 1853 - 504 pages
...would obstruct instead of promoting the progress of their country towards real wealth and greatness. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity...employed in a way in which we have some advantage. The Americans should ponder well those words of this eminent man, and should constantly bear in mind that... | |
 | Franz von Baader - 1854 - 432 pages
...Vol. II. 275. in der Basler Ausgabe von 1801 in der Stelle: what is prudence in the condnct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom) das Gegentheil bievon behauptet, so widerlegt doch Theorie und Erfahrung diese Behauptung ebensowohl,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...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...better buy it of them with some part of the produce of onr own industry employed in a way in which we have some advantage. The general industry of the country... | |
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