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" Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present... "
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Page 18
by Adam Smith - 1809
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 41

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 526 pages
...confequence of exchanging one thing for another ; .whether a propenfity to fuch exchange be one of thofe original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given, ; or whether, as fee ins more probable, it be the neceffary confequence of the faculties of reafon and fpeech. Dr. Smith...
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The Works of Adam Smith, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 582 pages
...propenfity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. • Whether this propenfity be one of thofe original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given ; or whether, as feems more probable, it be the neceffary confequence of the faculties of reafon and ipeech, it belongs...
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The Works of Adam Smith, LL.D. and F.R.S. of London and Edinburgh:: The ...

Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...propenfity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propenfity be one of thofe original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given ; or whether, as feems more probable, it be the neceflary confequence of the faculties of reafon and fpeech, it belongs...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 530 pages
...truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propenfity be one of thofe ori. ginal principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given ; or whether, as feems more probable, it be the neceffary confequence of the faculties of reafon and fpeech, it belongs...
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The character & logical method of political economy, lectures

John Elliott Cairnes - 1857 - 204 pages
...no such extensive utility — the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propensity be one of those original principles...consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belont/s not to the present subject to inquire." In other words, he distinctly declines to "explain...
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Principles of Social and Political Economy, Or, The Laws of the ..., Volume 1

William Atkinson - Economics - 1858 - 698 pages
...task of considering, investigating, and proving, by adopting the declaration, that the principle is one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given than that of merely declaring it to be a fact ; and, moreover, that it is a principle into the character...
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The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy

John Elliot Cairnes - Business & Economics - 1869 - 208 pages
...no such extensive utility — the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which 110 further account can be given, or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence...
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The character & logical method of political economy, lectures

John Elliott Cairnes - 1875 - 300 pages
...no such extensive utility — the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propensity be one of those original principles...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to the present subject to inquire." (' Wealth of Nations,' Book i. chap, ii.) In other words, he distinctly...
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The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy

John Elliott Cairnes - Economics - 1875 - 230 pages
...no such extensive utility — the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propensity be one of those original principles...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to the present subject to inquire" ("Wealth of Nations," book i. chap. ii.). In other words, he distinctly...
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The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy

John Elliott Cairnes - Economics - 1875 - 260 pages
...no such extensive utility — the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propensity be one of those original principles...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to the present subject to inquire." (' Wealth of Nations,' Book i. chap, ii.) In other words, he distinctly...
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