 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
 | Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland - Ireland - 1876 - 574 pages
...greater part of the members are few 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." At the centenary celebration of the Wealth of Nations, Mr. Gladstone took this... | |
 | 1872 - 838 pages
...by the great master of political economy himself, 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.' l They have learned, further, that they possess the power of asserting this right... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1872 - 858 pages
...by the great master of political economy himself, 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.' ' They have learned, further, that they possess the power of asserting this right... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...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. Poverty, though it no doubt discourages, docs not always prevent marriage. It... | |
 | James Harvey (of Liverpool.) - Currency question - 1877 - 268 pages
...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, lodged, and clothed.' " The equity of the case," continues Mr. Duncan, com- On the word olmenting on... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 920 pages
...says: "It is but equity that those who feed, clothe, ami lodgo the whole body of the people should havo such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged." Ha has no respect for that " insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 948 pages
...eqnity that those who feed, clothe, aud lodge the whole body of the people should have such a eharo of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged." He has no respect for that " insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman... | |
 | James Bonar - Economics - 1893 - 438 pages
...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." He here contradicts his own statement (about the general diffusion of happiness... | |
 | James Bonar - Economics - 1893 - 440 pages
...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." He here contradicts his 1 I. v1n. 31. 2 I. VHI. 36, 1. own statement (about the... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1894 - 526 pages
...whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that...themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed, and lodged. Poverty, though it no doubt discourages, does not always prevent marriage. It seems even to be favourable... | |
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