 | Adam Smith - 1789 - 526 pages
...The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed fo violent a metaphor, a fort of waggon-way through the air ; enable the country...as it were, a great part of its highways into good paftures and corn-fields, and thereby to increafe very confiderably the annual produce of its land... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1801 - 362 pages
...operations of banking , by providing , if 1 may be allowed fo violent a metaphor ^ a fort of waggon- way through the air ; enable the country to convert as it were , a great part of its highways into good paflures and corn-fields, and thereby to increafe Very confiderably the annual produce of its land... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 pages
...operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of wagon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pasture and corn fields, and thereby to increase very considerably the annual produce of its land and... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 530 pages
...The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed fb violent a metaphor, a fort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country...as it were, a great part of its highways into good paftures and corn fields, and thereby to increafe very confiderably the annual produce of its land... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 520 pages
...The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed fb violent a metaphor,a fort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country...as it were, a great part of its highways into good paftures and corn fields, and thereby to increafe very confiderably the annual produce of its land... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812
...operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed fo violent a metaphor, a fort of waggon- way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good paftures and corn fields, and thereby to increafe very confiderably the annual produce of its land... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1828 - 246 pages
...of " banking, by providing a sort of waggon-way " through the air, enable the country to con" vert, as it were, a great part of its highways " into good pastures and corn-fields, and " thereby to encrease, very considerably, the " annual produce of its land and labour." " But," he adds, that "... | |
 | 1828 - 724 pages
...either. The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, ;is it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures and corn-fields, and thereby to increase... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1835 - 494 pages
...in the least diminishing the wealth of the nation. " The judicious operations of banking" do not " enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures and corn fields," but, to vary Adam Smith's metaphor, they enable the country to convert its coin into... | |
 | 1841 - 210 pages
...providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of wagon-way through the air, enables the country to convert, as it were, a great part of...very considerably, the annual produce of its land and labor. The commerce and industry of the country, however, it must be acknowledged, though they may... | |
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The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of wagon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures and cornfields, and thereby to... 
