 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful fubfiftence increafes the bodily ftrength of the -labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days perhaps in eafe and plenty, animates him to exert that itrength to the utmoft. Where wages are high, accordingly,... | |
 | James Malcolm (land surveyor.) - Agricultural systems - 1805 - 494 pages
...industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful subsistence, increases the bodily strength...of bettering his condition, and of ending his days in ease and plenty, animates him to exert that strength to the utmost. The inhabitants of the country... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength...wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workmen more active, diligent, and expeditious, than where they are low 5 in Ertgfand, for example,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful fubfiftence increafes the bodily ftrength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days perhaps in eafe and plenty, animates him to exert that ftrength to the utmoft. Where wages are high, accordingly,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 530 pages
...proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful fubfiftence increafes the bodily ftrength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days perhaps in eafe and plenty, animates him to exert that ftrength to the utmoft. Where wages are high, accordingly,... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1827 - 522 pages
...industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength...wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workmen more active, diligent, and expeditious, than where they are low; in England, for example, than... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1827 - 522 pages
...industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength...animates him to exert that strength to the utmost. Where V wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workmen more active, diligent, and expeditious,... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1832 - 530 pages
...industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength...wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workmen more active, diligent, and expeditious, than where they are low ; in England, for ex ample,... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 604 pages
...the encouragement it receives. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the laborer ; and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition,...wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workmen more active, diligent, and expeditious than where they are low." Another writer observes, with... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1849 - 686 pages
...industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength...wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workmen more active, diligent, and expeditious, than where they are low — in England, for example,... | |
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The liberal reward of labour, as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement... 
