 | Adam Smith - 1812
...the labourer, muft be higher in a ftill greater proportion. But though North America is not yet fo rich as England, it is much more thriving, and advancing with much greater rapidity to the further acquifition of riches. The moft decifive mark of the profperity of any country is the increafe of the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 520 oldal
...the labourer, muft be higher in a ftill greater proportion. But though North America is not yet fo rich as England, it is much more thriving, and advancing with much greater rapidity to the further acquifition of riches. The moft decifive mark of the profperity of any country is the increafe of the... | |
 | 1832 - 734 oldal
...to the labourer, must be higher in a still greater proportion. But though North America is not vet so rich as England, it is much more thriving, and...rapidity to the further acquisition of riches."— See Wealth of Nations, vol. ic viii. Thoughts on Church Reform ; by a true Prole$tunt. pp H. Remarks... | |
 | 1832 - 618 oldal
...labourer, must be higher in a still greater proportion. But though North America is not yet so rich aa England, it is much more thriving, and advancing with...rapidity to the further acquisition of riches."— See Wealth of Nations, vol. ic viii. Thoughts on Church Reform ; by a true Protestant, pp 11. Remarks... | |
 | Sir Travers Twiss - 1847 - 356 oldal
...countenance from Adam Smith, when he laid it down in treating of the wages of labour (BI c. viii.), that " the most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country...is the increase of the number of its inhabitants." Such also had been the general notion of antiquity, as we may gather from its laws and its philosophy.... | |
 | Travers Twiss - 1847 - 358 oldal
...countenance from Adam Smith,. when he laid it down in treating of the wages of labour (BI c. viii.), that "the most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country...is the increase of the number of its inhabitants." Such also had been the general notion of antiquity, as we may gather from its laws and its philosophy.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1854 - 580 oldal
...are much higher in North America than in any part of England. But though North America is not yfet so rich as England, it is much more thriving, and...prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of Us inhabitants." —B. ic 8. From all this it is clear that without a surplus produce •we cannot... | |
 | sir George Kettilby Rickards - 1854 - 316 oldal
...appears to attach no qualification whatever to this doctrine. " The most decisive mark," he says, " of the prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of its inhabitants." If this were the D whole truth, then should Ireland, previously to the last six years, have been the... | |
 | Sir George Kettilby Rickards - 1854 - 308 oldal
...appears to attach no qualification whatever to this doctrine. " The most decisive mark," he says, " of the prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of its inhabitants." If this were the whole truth, then should Ireland, previously to the last six years, have been the... | |
 | 1858 - 206 oldal
...further acquisition of riches. Tlie evidence of this is in the rapid increase of population ; for, the most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country...is, the increase of the number of its inhabitants. Though the wealth of a country should be very great, yet, if it have been long stationary, we must... | |
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But though North America is not yet so rich as England, it is much more thriving, and advancing with much greater rapidity to the further acquisition of riches. The most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of its... 
