 | Samuel Read (of Roslin.) - 1829 - 444 pages
...labour which we exchange for what is supposed at the time to contain the value of an equal quantity. Labour •was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased;... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1832 - 530 pages
...must be content to • Wealth of Nations, book ic 5. On this point, Smith observes, Jhnt " labour wan the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased."... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1834 - 692 pages
...are the produce of no man's labour, and no man can appropriate them to himself, they are of no value in the market. " Labour was the first price, the original...This it mine ? The man who first set his mark upon if by his industry, and thereby gave it a value that could not be severed from it. It was thus, that... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1834 - 556 pages
...almost all others. To ascertain * Wealth of Nations, book ic 5. On this point, Smith observes, that " labour was the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased."... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...All labour has the same effect, and equally increases the whole mass of wealth. (Edin. Rev. vol. 4.J labour was the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased.—(Wealth... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 520 pages
...human labour, or indirectly through the aid of other instruments themselves formed by human labour;—" the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things." 2. All instruments bring to pass, or tend or help to bring to pass, events supplying some of the wants... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...labour, which we exchange for what is supposed at the time to contain the value of an equal quantity. Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but l;y labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased... | |
 | John Francis Bray - Great Britain - 1839 - 224 pages
...class of producers or the other, or to stimulate production by useful though unproductive labour." "Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney, that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the w-orld was originally purchased."... | |
 | Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1841 - 380 pages
...the means of subsistence, and the first comforts of life at home. It must never be forgotten that " labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not, and is not, by gold or by silver, but by labour that all the wealth of the world was originally... | |
 | Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1841 - 694 pages
...the means of subsistence, and the first comforts of life at home. It must never be forgotten that " labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not, and is not, by gold or by silver, but by labour that all the wealth of the world was originally... | |
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Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things." When all things lay in common, alike the gift of nature to all men, who would have the best right to say, This it mine ? The man who first set his mark upon 
