 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
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 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...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... | |
 | Thomas S. Blair - 1896 - 596 pages
...to do his impish work. One such instance is the following:—" What is prudence in the conduct of a private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom," says our author. On the contrary, it may be precisely that thing. The assumption here of the identity... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...nonentity." GEORGE ELIOT. Scenes from Clerical Life, Amos Barton. " What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." ADAM SMITH. The Wealth of Nations. " (For) what is Right But equipoise of Nature, alternating The Too... | |
 | George Armitage-Smith - 1898 - 252 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." —(Wealth of Nations, book iv. chap. 2). covery is to cheapen and multiply products and conv&niencies,... | |
 | 1901 - 686 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...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... | |
 | Leo Petritsch - 1902 - 220 pages
...Vgl. schon Smith, Wealth of nations, p. 346: „If a foreign country can supply us with a oommodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy...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... | |
 | David Ricardo - 1903 - 946 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...ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some >art of the produce of our own industry, employed in a ray in which we have some advantage. The general... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 260 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." Capital and industry are certainly not employed to the greatest advantage when they are directed to... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 262 pages
...have occasion for. " JKttatJ8_Brudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly i3 that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can...employed in a way in which we have some advantage." Capital and industry are certainly not employed to the greatest advantage when they are directed to... | |
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