| 1806 - 614 sider
...is remarked by him that " the sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable...the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowlege could ever be sufficient ; the duty of superintending the industry of private people, and... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1806 - 582 sider
...him that " the sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which ha must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and...the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowlege could ever be sufftcient; the duty of superintending the industry of private people, and of... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 520 sider
...be exposed to iririiimerable delusions, and for the proper pefformahce of which, no human wisdom of knowledge could ever be sufficient ; the duty of superintending...directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interests of the society. According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three... | |
| Adam Smith - 1819 - 518 sider
...other man, or order of men. The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable...directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interests of the society. According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three... | |
| George Crosby - 1849 - 564 sider
...other man, or order of men. The Sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable...directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interests of society." An illustration had occurred to his own mind in connexion with a different subject,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 sider
...other man, or order of men. The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which, he must always be exposed to innumerable...the interest of the society. According to the system ol natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to ; three duties of great importance,... | |
| Archibald Weir - 1886 - 644 sider
...other man, or order of men. The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable...the proper performance of which no human wisdom or foreknowledge could ever be ADAM SMITHS DOCTRINE OF TAXATION. 413 sufficient ; the duty of superintending... | |
| Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 182 sider
...other man or order of men. The sovereign should be completely discharged from a duty, in attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable...industry of private people, and of directing it towards employments most suitable to the interests of society. Such is the individualism of Adam Smith. But... | |
| 1887 - 468 sider
...interpreted aright as far as it applies to the circumstances of the Constitutional State of the present day. 'According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to ... first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies... | |
| 1888 - 950 sider
...other man .or order of men. The Sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable...directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interests of the society " (" Wealth of Nations," book iv. c. 9). But while the Sovereign is discharged... | |
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