 By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.  The Dublin university magazine - Pagina 16door University magazine - 1845Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1818 - 638 pagina’s
...use the words of Dr Smithj are not only indispensably necessary for the support of life, but which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...creditable people even of the lowest order to be without, consists in this, that the former is altogether a tax on profits, and is entirely paid by the employers... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 pagina’s
...luxuries. By necessaries I understand, not only the commo, 4jties which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 520 pagina’s
...necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the supT port of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 pagina’s
...rate as will enable the labourer to obtain " not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." Now it is plain, from this definition, that there neither is nor can be any absolute standard of natural... | |
 | Samuel Read - 1829 - 440 pagina’s
...necessaries," says Dr Smith, " I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Samuel Read - 1829 - 444 pagina’s
...which are indispensably necessary for the " This of course includes the meaning no* to marry without. support of life, but whatever the custom of the country...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | 1835 - 858 pagina’s
...increased economy ; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, — that is, of those commodities " which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -{• — be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect,... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1836 - 434 pagina’s
...increased economy ; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, <— that is, of those commodities " which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -j—be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pagina’s
...the commodities which are indispcnsibly necessary tor the support of life, hut whatever the custom uf the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 456 pagina’s
...It must comprise, in the words of Adam Smith, "not only such things as are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." The quantity and kind of these things depend, not only on the habits and customs of the people. but... | |
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