 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1825 - 468 pages
...labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every political society. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of...greater part of the members are poor and miserable." (Smith's Wealth of Nations, bil 8.) But the same great authority has observed with perfect truth, that... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...the greater part, can never be regarded as any inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely bo flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members arc poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole... | |
 | Economics - 1884 - 924 pages
...Kapitalbesitz — »ist derjenige Theil des Vermögensbesitzes einer Person, welcher derselben als Erbe flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable . . . 1) Das Geld S. 20. 2) Volkwirthschaftslehre 2. Aufl. S. 38, 39. Vgl. Kleinwächter in Schönbergs... | |
 | Henry Dunckley - Great Britain - 1851 - 260 pages
...But what improves the circumstances of the greater part, can never be regarded as any inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing...greater part of the members are poor and miserable.— H'talth <>/ .\ationi, book 1. ch. 8. Whit a fool (quoth he) am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon,... | |
 | 1858 - 206 pages
...condition of the greater part, can never be a matter of indifference to the whole. No society can be really flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part 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,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - England - 1862 - 746 pages
...condition of the greater part, can never be a matter of indifference to the whole. No society can be really flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part 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,... | |
 | William Godwin Moody - Agriculture - 1883 - 380 pages
...any great political society. What improves the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that those who feed,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1884 - 604 pages
...But what improves the circumstances of the greater part, can never be regarded as any inconreniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of winch the far greater part of the members are poor and inis*r.ibli. It is but equity, besides, that... | |
 | Scotland - 1887 - 506 pages
...viii. And again : — ' No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lods;e the whole body of the people should have such a share of th • pro Inoa of our labour, aa to... | |
 | Scotland - 1887 - 468 pages
...of stock, the whole produce of labour belongs to the labourer.' Book i., ch. viii. And again : — ' No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole... | |
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But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. 
