 It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed, and lodged.  History of Economic Thought.. - Page 172by Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 567 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they \vho feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have...the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tojerably well fed, clothed, and lodged, , Poverty, though it no doubt discourages, does not always... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...part of the members are poor and miserable. Jt is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have...own labour .as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. Poverty, though it no doubt discourages, does not always prevent, marriage. It... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...workmen of different kinds," — he says incidentally, " it is but equity that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people should have...own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged;*" meaning evidently, from the context, that the labourers alone feed, clothe,... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1833 - 674 pages
...greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have...own labour, as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged." — Wealth of Nations, bi ch. 8. Government is interested not less than the people,... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Margracia) - Economics - 1835 - 348 pages
...all things so produced, for the use of the producers. " It is but equity that they who feed, clothe, and lodge, the whole body of the people, should have...own labour, as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.-)-" If the raw produce is now the property of the lookers-on, the labour, at least,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should hnve such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be theinbelves tolerably well fed, clothed, and ludged. I'owrty, though it no doubt discourages, does... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Industrial relations - 1852 - 142 pages
...are far more who not only feel, with Adam Smith, that " it is but equity that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have...own labour, as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged ;" and wish the workmen to be animated with " the comfortable hope of bettering... | |
 | India - 1855 - 462 pages
...revenue ? — letting alone what Adam Smith says, that, " It 19 ' but equity, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the ' whole body of the people, should have...labour, as to be themselves tolerably ' well fed, clothed and lodged." We shall recur to this again ; in the mean time let us close Mr. Campbell's account,... | |
 | 1858 - 206 pages
...the members are poor and miserable. Besides, it is but common justice, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have...own labour as to be, themselves, tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. Every species of animal naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of its... | |
 | Charles Tennant - England - 1862 - 746 pages
...of the members are poor and miserable. Besides, it is but common justice that they who feed, clothe, and lodge, the whole body of the people, should have...own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. Every species of animal naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of its... | |
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