 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...and nominal Price of Commodities, or of their Price in Labour, and their Price in Money. EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the neceflaries, conveniencies, and amufements of human life. But after the divifion... | |
 | 1821 - 608 pages
...these conclusions were deduced, appeared to be almost self-evident and incontrovertible. ' Every man is rich or poor, according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life. ' * And, as it is conceded... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 624 pages
...alike relative terms ; and thus, Ad¿i Smith defines them most accurately when he says, that ' a tea? ' is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can effort ' to enjoy i he necessaries, conveniences, and amusement« о ' human life;' that is, according... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Classical school of economics - 1827 - 322 pages
...importance to it. He agrees entirely with Adam Smith in the following definition of riches: " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life."* And adds an observation... | |
 | J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...therefore term its natural price. CHAPTER III. ON THE DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES OF VALUE AND RICHES. A MAN is rich or poor, according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements, of human life. It follows, then, that... | |
 | William Orme - Clergy - 1828 - 310 pages
...was not confined to material objects. Ha4 Dr. Smith but remembered his own aphorism, that " every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life;" and had he, by his usual train... | |
 | William Orme - Clergy - 1828 - 278 pages
...was not confined to material objects. Had Dr. Smith but remembered his own aphorism, that "every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford i& enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life ;" and had he, by his usual train... | |
 | British agriculturist - Agriculture - 1829 - 54 pages
...products of our colonies, &c. &c. Pursuant to Adam Smith's unexceptionable expression, " that a man is rich or " poor according to the degree in which he can afford " to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amuse" ments of human life," the English labourer... | |
 | Pablo Pebrer (i.e., Antonio Pablo) - Debts, Public - 1833 - 598 pages
...friendship, but even insult the laws of nature. In fact, if according to Smith's definition, " a man is rich or poor, according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life ", highly increased prices, by... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 886 pages
...these conclusions were deduced appeared to be almost self-evident and incontrovertible. " Every man is rich or poor, according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life." •[• And, as it is... | |
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Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. 
