 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 538 pages
...labouring cattle, are productive labourers. In agriculture, too, Nature labours along with man ; and though her labour costs no expense, its produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workmen. The most important operations of agriculture seem intended, not so much to increase, though they do... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 566 pages
...rise of rent is always the effect of the increasing wealth of the country, and of the difficulty of produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workman." The labour of nature is paid, not because she does much, but because she does little. In... | |
 | G. Robertson - Economics - 1830 - 480 pages
...equal capital puts in " motion a greater quantity of labour than that of " the farmer;" also, that "in agriculture nature " labours along with man, and...as " well as that of the most expensive workmen." The opinion stated of the superior value of agriculture toother branches of industry is quite erroneous.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1854 - 580 pages
...labouring cattle are productive labourers, lu agriculture, too, Nature labours along with man, and though her labour costs no expense, its produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workman No equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures, can ever occasion so great... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1855 - 490 pages
...Employments of Capital." " In agriculture, nature labours along with man ; and though her labour cost no expense, its produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workman. The most important operations of agriculture seem intended, not so much to increase, though... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 496 pages
...Employments of Capital." " In agriculture, nature labours along with man ; and though her labour cost no expense, its produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workman. The most important operations of agriculture seem intended, not so much to increase, though... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 pages
...Employments of Capital." " In agriculture, nature labours along with man ; and though her labour cost no expense, its produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workman. The most important operations of agriculture seem intended, not so much to increase, though... | |
 | Joseph Fisher - Ireland - 1863 - 250 pages
...labouring cattle, are productive labourers. In agriculture, too, nature labours along with man ; and though her labour costs no expense, its produce has its value as well as that of the most experienced workmen." I might, in addition to these English authorities, quote pagan authors in confirmation... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...labouring cattle, are productive labourers. In agriculture, too, nature labours along with man ; and though her labour costs no expense, its produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workmen. The most important operations of agriculture seem intended, not so much to increase, though they do... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 574 pages
...Smith therefore justly says1 — " In agriculture, too, nature labours along with man ; nnd though its labour costs no expense, its produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workman." — " The labourer and the labouring cattle therefore employed in agriculture not only occasion,... | |
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In agriculture, too, Nature labours along with man ; and though her labour costs no expense, its produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workmen. 
