 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
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 pages
...of a part of it, whatever elsn they have occasion for. " ' What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great...country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than wo ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with nome part nf the produce of our own industry employed... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1856 - 590 pages
...of a part of it, whatever else they may have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." * v"""""But this comparison between individuals and communities is often a faulty and deceptive one,... | |
 | Georg Friedrich List - 1856 - 528 pages
...confounding the maxims of private with those of public economy. " What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. . . . By pursuing his own interest, he promotes that of society. . . . What is the species of domestic... | |
 | Friedrich List - 1856 - 554 pages
...confounding the maxims of private with those of public economy. " What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can "* scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. ... By pursuing his own interest, he promotes that of society. . . . What is the species of domestic... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - 1857 - 204 pages
...the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. What is prudence in the conduct of a 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... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1857 - 510 pages
...conduct of every private family ; and, as Adam Smith has said, " What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." To an honest and wellmeaning Government, an exact knowledge of the revenue and expenditure of the nation... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 576 pages
...of a part of it, whatever else they may have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." * But this comparison between individuals and communities is often a faulty and deceptive one, and... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 586 pages
...of a part of it, whatever else they may have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." * But this comparison between individuals and communities is often a faulty and deceptive one, and... | |
 | 1860 - 788 pages
...else they have occasion for." " What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarcely be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with я commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce... | |
 | 1860 - 796 pages
...else they have occasion for." "What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarceIj be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us *'ith л commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy ¡' of them with some part of... | |
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