| Adam Smith - 1789 - 526 páginas
...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... | |
| James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 páginas
...this dead stock into active and productive stock ; into stock which produces something to the country. The gold and silver money which circulates in any...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
...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... | |
| Adam Smith - 1812 - 520 páginas
...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 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... | |
| 1825 - 798 páginas
...operations of banking, by providing, if 1 may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a soi t of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as...very considerably the annual produce of its land and labour t." Thus I have exhausted my first head. The application of it will come afterwards. As to my... | |
| Adam Smith - 1822 - 522 páginas
...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, as...very considerably the annual produce of its land and labour. The commerce and industry of the country, however, it must be acknowledged, though they may... | |
| 1824 - 1008 páginas
...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, as...very considerably the annual produce of its land and labour. The commerce and industry of the country, however, it must be acknowledged, though they may... | |
| 1828 - 746 páginas
...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, as...very considerably the annual produce of its land and labour.” In a country so highly populated as this, however, every wanton expenditure of its capital... | |
| Nassau William Senior - 1828 - 246 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...very considerably the annual produce of its land and labour.'' In a country so highly populated as this, however, every wanton expenditure of its capital... | |
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