 For a pair of diamond buckles, perhaps, or for something as frivolous and useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of a thousand men for a year, and with it the whole weight and authority which it...  History of the middle and working classes - Page 6by John Wade - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Hans-Joachim Stadermann, Otto Steiger - Business & Economics - 2006 - 416 pages
...something as frivolous and useless, they exchange the maintenance, or what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of a thousand men for a year, and...whole weight and authority, which it could give them. The buckles, however, were to be all their own, and no other human creature was to have any share of... | |
 | Dennis Carl Rasmussen - Business & Economics - 2010 - 208 pages
...something as frivolous and useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of a thousand men for a year, and...whole weight and authority which it could give them" (WN III.iv.io, 418-19). Once the lords began to spend the bulk of their wealth on luxuries, in other... | |
 | Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 pages
...useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or, what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of 1 000 oscillation will not be remarked by superficial observers, and it may be difficult The buckles, however, were to be all their own, and no other human creature was to have any share of... | |
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