 | Timothy Pitkin - 1835 - 628 pagina’s
...does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them from a shoemaker ; the shoemaker, on his part, does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor ; and the farmer makes neither the one nor the other, but obtains them, in exchange for his corn and... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pagina’s
...master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes,...to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. All... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 636 pagina’s
...master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes,...attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. What is prudence in the conduct of a private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great nation.... | |
 | 1841 - 614 pagina’s
...master of a family, never to attempt to make at .home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes,...to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. All... | |
 | 1841 - 616 pagina’s
...master of a family, never to attempt to make at .home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. TTte shoemaker does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. The farmer attempts... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 pagina’s
...making at home what it would cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor, as Dr. Smith has remarked, does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of a shoemaker ; the shoemaker, on his part, does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor... | |
 | Sir Robert Peel - 1849 - 82 pagina’s
...never to attempt to make at home, what it will, cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not make his own shoes but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemaker does not make his own clothes, but employs a tailor." He says, moreover, that " what is prudence in the conduct... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1849 - 686 pagina’s
...does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them from a shoemaker ; the shoemaker, on his part, does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor ; and the farmer makes neither the one nor the other, but obtains them in exchange for corn and cattle.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1850 - 612 pagina’s
...but amplified, and we might almost say perverted, by Sir Robert Peel. ' The tailor,' says Smith, ' does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them...shoemaker does not attempt to make his own clothes, but buys them of the tailor.' This merely exemplifies the advantage of division of employments. Pursuing... | |
 | 1850 - 608 pagina’s
...but amplified, and we might almost say perverted, by Sir Robert Peel. ' The tailor,' says Smith, ' does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them...shoemaker does not attempt to make his own clothes, but buys them of the tailor.' This merely exemplifies the advantage of division of employments. Pursuing... | |
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It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemaker does not attempt to make... 
