A country which neglects or despises foreign commerce, and which admits the vessels of foreign nations into one or two of its ports only, cannot transact the same quantity of business which it might do with different laws and institutions. The Quarterly review - Page 1581830Full view - About this book
| Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 pages
...and institutions, the nature of its soil,' climate, and situation, might admit of. .A'country whicft neglects or despises foreign commerce, and which admits...it might do with different laws and institutions. In a country too, where, though the rich or the owners of large capitals enjoy a good deal of security,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 452 pages
...institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, «ind situation, might admit of. A country which negleets Or despises foreign commerce, and which admits the...the same quantity of business which it might do with differ ent laws and institutions. In a country too, where, though the rich or the owners of large capitals... | |
| Adam Smith - 1812 - 582 pages
...of. A country which neglecls or or defpifes foreign commerce, and which admits c HA P. the veflels of foreign nations into one or two of its ports only, cannot tranfact the fame quantity of bufinefs which it might do with different laws and inftitutions. In a... | |
| Adam Smith - 1822 - 522 pages
...what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation might admit of. A country which neglects or despises foreign commerce,...it might do with different laws and institutions. In a country too, where, though the rich or the owners of large capitals enjoy a good deal of security,... | |
| Samuel Read - 1829 - 440 pages
...what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation might admit of. A country which neglects or despises foreign commerce,...it might do with different laws and institutions. In a country, too, where, though the rich or the owners of large capitals enjoy a good deal of security,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 574 pages
...the Chinese to adm t us on something like equal terms.* Dr. Smith himself puts forth the truism, -f- that ' a country which neglects or despises foreign...different laws and institutions.' It is only with thedribblings of their ocean, granted to us by the Chinese during our good behaviour, that we have... | |
| Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...main- Л country which neglects or despises foreign U'noncc of industry, ho fever, as it lowers the commerce, and which admits the vessels of foreign...it might do with different laws and institutions. In a country, too, where, though the rich, or the owners of large capitals, enjoy a good deal of security,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation might admit of. A country which neglects or despises foreign commerce,...it might do with different laws and institutions. In a country too, where, though the rich or the owners of large capitals enjoy a good deal of security,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 pages
...as it lowers the commerce, and which admits the vessel* o/ ness wilich it might md institutions. In foreign nations into one or two of its ports only, cannot transact the same quantity of busido with different laws a country, too, where, though the rich, or the owners of large capitals,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1892 - 914 pages
...what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation might admit of. A country which neglects or despises foreign commerce,...its ports only, cannot transact the same quantity of Imsiness which it might do with different laws and institutions. In a country too, where, though the... | |
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