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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 235
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 pages
...he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - 1811 - 452 pages
...only maintain him. while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and despQnding moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - 1822 - 522 pages
...employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxions and desponding moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level...
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Outlines of Political Economy: Being a Republication of the Article Upon ...

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 204 pages
...8 °nd *f ne obtained more than what was a fair and reasonable compensation for the greater expense to which he had been put, there would be an immediate...bricklayers are generally from fifty to one hundred per cent, higher. Where common labourers earn four or five shillings a week, masons and bricklayers...
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The Principles of Political Economy: With a Sketch of the Rise and Progress ...

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 pages
...the time they are necessarily idle ; and they ought also to afford them, as Dr Smith has remarked, some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. This principle shows the fallacy of the opinion so generally entertained respecting the great earnings...
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Political Economy: An Inquiry Into the Natural Grounds of Right to Vendible ...

Samuel Read - 1829 - 440 pages
...he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...a trade which, in hardship, is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding moments which the thought of so precarious a dirtiness, and disagreeableness, almost equals that of colliers; and, from the unavoidable irregularity...
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The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their ...

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1849 - 686 pages
...during the time they are necessarily idle ; and they should also afford them, as Smith has remarked, some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. This principle shows the fallacy of the opinion so generally entertained respecting the great earnings...
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A Treatise on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and the ...

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1851 - 168 pages
...during the time they are necessarily idle. And they ought also to afford them, as Dr Smith has remarked, some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. This principle shows the fallacy of the opinion so generally entertained respecting the great earnings...
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Foliorum Centuriae: Selections for Translation Into Latin and Greek Prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level...
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