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Author(s): Smith, Adam
Reader(s): Wickham, Peter
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Period: Classical
Catalogue No: NA0407
Barcode: 9781781982587
Release Date: 01/2020
SMITH, A.: Wealth of Nations (The) (Unabridged)
It was Adam Smith (1723–1790) who first established economics as a separate branch of knowledge, and many would say his work has never been surpassed. The Wealth of Nations, which appeared in 1776, is the definitive text for all who believe that economic decisions are best left to markets, not governments. At the heart of Smith’s doctrine is an optimistic view of the effects of self-interest. Though each individual seeks only personal gain, the collective result is increased prosperity, which benefits society as a whole.
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1 | The Wealth of Nations | 07:26 |
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2 | Book 1. Chapter 1 | 12:33 |
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3 | Secondly, The advantage which is gained by saving… | 10:36 |
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4 | Chapter 2 | 10:23 |
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5 | Chapter 3 | 12:09 |
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6 | Chapter 4 | 08:16 |
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7 | The first public stamps of this kind that were affixed… | 09:34 |
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8 | Chapter 5 | 12:38 |
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9 | The discovery of the mines of America diminished… | 11:54 |
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10 | In the progress of industry, commercial nations… | 11:02 |
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11 | In the English mint, a pound weight of standard… | 12:56 |
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12 | Chapter 6 | 10:55 |
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13 | As any particular commodity comes to be more… | 09:23 |
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14 | Chapter 7 | 11:27 |
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15 | The occasional and temporary fluctuations… | 12:51 |
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16 | Chapter 8 | 11:50 |
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17 | There are certain circumstances, however… | 13:03 |
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18 | The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the… | 12:09 |
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19 | The real recompense of labour, the real quantity of… | 10:35 |
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20 | The liberal reward of labour, as it encourages the… | 08:01 |
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21 | A French author of great knowledge and ingenuity… | 08:35 |
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22 | Chapter 9 | 09:35 |
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23 | The province of Holland, on the other hand… | 10:09 |
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24 | But, perhaps, no country has ever yet arrived… | 09:56 |
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25 | Chapter 10. Part 1 | 09:54 |
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26 | The profits of stock seem to be very little affected… | 07:24 |
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27 | The probability that any particular person shall ever… | 09:39 |
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28 | The contempt of risk, and the presumptuous hope… | 09:27 |
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29 | In a small sea-port town, a little grocer will make… | 08:36 |
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30 | The establishment of any new manufacture… | 10:21 |
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31 | Part 2 | 10:46 |
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32 | The institution of long apprenticeships… | 11:31 |
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33 | The inhabitants of the country, dispersed in distant … | 10:01 |
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34 | It is in this manner that the policy of Europe… | 12:52 |
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35 | This inequality is, upon the whole, perhaps rather… | 11:34 |
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36 | In order to restore, in some measure, that free… | 11:42 |
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37 | Chapter 11 | 06:28 |
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38 | Part 1 | 09:40 |
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39 | Particular circumstances have sometimes rendered… | 11:10 |
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40 | That the vineyard, when properly planted… | 10:08 |
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41 | In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco… | 10:35 |
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42 | Part 2 | 11:53 |
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43 | Coals are a less agreeable fuel than wood… | 11:52 |
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44 | As the sovereign, however, derives a considerable… | 12:08 |
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45 | Part 3 | 12:33 |
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46 | Thus, in 1436, it was enacted, that wheat might be… | 11:13 |
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47 | Thirdly, they seem to have been misled too… | 12:31 |
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48 | The price of gold and silver, when the accidental… | 12:52 |
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49 | The second event was the bounty upon… | 12:23 |
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50 | The high price of corn during these ten or twelve… | 10:44 |
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51 | Secondly, America is itself a new market… | 12:36 |
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52 | The continual consumption of the precious metals… | 12:43 |
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53 | The quantity of silver commonly in the market… | 12:42 |
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54 | Different Effects of the Progress of Improvement… | 09:50 |
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55 | Till the price of cattle, indeed, has got to this height… | 13:42 |
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56 | The hog, that finds his food among ordure… | 14:18 |
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57 | In England, however, notwithstanding… | 11:02 |
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58 | The wool of Scotland fell very considerably… | 13:26 |
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59 | As the low value of gold and silver, therefore… | 10:27 |
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60 | Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon… | 12:07 |
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61 | Conclusion of the Chapter | 09:59 |
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62 | Book 2 | 05:29 |
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63 | Chapter 1 | 09:13 |
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64 | The second of the three portions into which… | 11:02 |
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65 | Chapter 2 | 12:37 |
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66 | When, by any particular sum of money, we mean… | 12:58 |
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67 | So far as it is employed in the first way, it promotes… | 13:08 |
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68 | By means of those cash accounts, every merchant can… | 14:04 |
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69 | When a bank discounts to a merchant a real bill… | 11:13 |
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70 | It is now more than five and twenty years since… | 13:08 |
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71 | In the midst of this clamour and distress, a new bank… | 10:40 |
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72 | That the industry of Scotland languished… | 11:31 |
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73 | An unsuccessful war, for example, in which… | 11:09 |
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74 | Some years ago the different banking companies… | 10:48 |
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75 | Chapter 3 | 13:32 |
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76 | The proportion between those different funds… | 12:49 |
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77 | The quantity of money, on the contrary… | 13:34 |
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78 | But though the profusion of government must… | 09:39 |
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79 | Chapter 4 | 10:38 |
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80 | Before the discovery of the Spanish West Indies… | 11:15 |
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81 | Chapter 5 | 09:31 |
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82 | No equal capital puts into motion a greater quantity… | 11:08 |
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83 | The course of human prosperity… | 09:37 |
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84 | That part of the capital of any country… | 11:42 |
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85 | Book 3. Chapter 1 | 13:26 |
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86 | Chapter 2 | 10:07 |
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87 | If little improvement was to be expected… | 09:02 |
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88 | To this species of tenantry succeeded… | 11:20 |
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89 | Chapter 3 | 08:21 |
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90 | In order to understand this, it must be remembered… | 07:51 |
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91 | The inhabitants of a city, it is true, must always… | 11:21 |
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92 | Chapter 4 | 11:06 |
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93 | The introduction of the feudal law, so far… | 10:27 |
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94 | A revolution of the greatest importance to the public… | 12:07 |
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95 | Book 4. Chapter 1 | 12:53 |
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96 | Such as they were, however, those arguments… | 14:15 |
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97 | Consumable commodities, it is said, are soon… | 11:30 |
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98 | Besides the three sorts of gold and silver above… | 10:50 |
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99 | It is not by the importation of gold and silver… | 11:16 |
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100 | Chapter 2 | 10:09 |
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101 | What is the species of domestic industry which his… | 10:32 |
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102 | Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always… | 09:16 |
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103 | When the act of navigation was made… | 09:03 |
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104 | The case in which it may sometimes be a matter… | 11:03 |
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105 | To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade… | 03:44 |
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106 | Chapter 3 | 10:04 |
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107 | When for a sum of money paid in England… | 08:56 |
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108 | Before 1609, the great quantity of clipt and worn… | 09:45 |
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109 | Upon deposits of the coin current in the country… | 12:32 |
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110 | Part 2 | 09:45 |
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111 | It is a losing trade, it is said, which a workman… | 07:27 |
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112 | The wealth of neighbouring nations, however… | 11:10 |
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113 | Chapter 4 | 14:22 |
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114 | Chapter 5 | 07:49 |
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115 | I answer, that whatever extension of the foreign… | 09:16 |
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116 | Spain by taxing, and Portugal by prohibiting… | 08:55 |
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117 | Our country gentlemen, when they imposed… | 10:02 |
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118 | The salt with which these herrings are cured… | 11:40 |
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119 | What is called a bounty, is sometimes no more than… | 10:33 |
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120 | In an extensive corn country, between all… | 10:48 |
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121 | The dealer who can employ his whole stock… | 12:02 |
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122 | The 15th of Charles II. c. 7, however, with all its… | 11:10 |
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123 | Were all nations to follow the liberal system… | 12:20 |
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124 | Chapter 6 | 09:50 |
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125 | Though Britain were entirely excluded… | 08:26 |
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126 | Were the private people who carry their gold… | 09:04 |
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127 | The directors of the bank, however, would probably… | 03:58 |
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128 | Chapter 7 | 12:07 |
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129 | The Cori, something between a rat and a rabbit… | 11:45 |
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130 | Part 2 | 10:37 |
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131 | After the settlements of the Spaniards… | 09:31 |
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132 | Secondly, In Pennsylvania there is no right of… | 12:50 |
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133 | In the exportation of their own surplus produce, too… | 12:54 |
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134 | While Great Britain encourages in America… | 10:09 |
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135 | The absolute governments of Spain, Portugal… | 11:20 |
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136 | Part 3 | 09:15 |
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137 | The advantages of such colonies to their respective… | 09:39 |
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138 | England, it must be observed, was a great… | 09:20 |
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139 | The most advantageous employment of any capital… | 11:19 |
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140 | The monopoly of the colony trade, besides… | 12:07 |
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141 | The natural good effects of the colony trade… | 10:06 |
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142 | It is solely by raising the ordinary rate of profit… | 13:05 |
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143 | In order to render any province advantageous… | 11:29 |
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144 | Should the parliament of Great Britain… | 12:51 |
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145 | In the mean time, one of the principal effects… | 12:04 |
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146 | In the trade to America, every nation endeavours… | 10:37 |
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147 | Though the Europeans possess many considerable… | 09:08 |
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148 | But a company of merchants, are, it seems… | 09:49 |
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149 | Chapter 8 | 10:34 |
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150 | The fourth bounty of this kind was that granted… | 11:06 |
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151 | But in the particular counties of Kent and Sussex… | 09:59 |
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152 | The violence of these regulations, therefore… | 09:21 |
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153 | By the above-mentioned statute, gum senega… | 08:25 |
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154 | If any artificer has gone beyond the seas… | 06:33 |
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155 | Chapter 9 | 08:55 |
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156 | The ground expenses, as they are called… | 09:36 |
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157 | The unproductive class, however, is not only useful… | 08:43 |
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158 | When a landed nation on the contrary, oppresses… | 09:43 |
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159 | Thirdly, it seems, upon every supposition… | 07:45 |
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160 | This system, however, with all its imperfections… | 09:55 |
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161 | The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious aversion… | 10:22 |
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162 | The greatest and most important branch… | 06:27 |
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163 | Book 5. Chapter 1. Part 1 | 12:35 |
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164 | The number of those who can go to war… | 12:34 |
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165 | The soldiers who are exercised only once a week… | 10:14 |
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166 | Many different causes contributed to relax… | 12:12 |
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167 | Part 2 | 09:10 |
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168 | The fourth of those causes or circumstances… | 10:39 |
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169 | Among nations of shepherds, where the sovereign… | 08:26 |
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170 | The fees of court seem originally to have been the… | 07:36 |
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171 | Part 3 | 10:10 |
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172 | The money levied at the different turnpikes… | 11:18 |
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173 | Even those public works, which are of such a nature… | 10:03 |
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174 | The regulated companies for foreign commerce… | 10:02 |
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175 | Long after the time of Sir Josiah Child, however… | 08:09 |
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176 | Joint-stock companies, established either by royal… | 07:06 |
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177 | The Hudson’s Bay company, before their misfortunes… | 08:30 |
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178 | The old English East India company was established… | 10:14 |
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179 | What the gross revenue of those territorial… | 10:18 |
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180 | When a company of merchants undertake… | 11:12 |
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181 | Article 2. Of the Expense of the Institution for… | 09:59 |
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182 | If in each college, the tutor or teacher… | 10:51 |
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183 | Originally, the first rudiments, both of the Greek… | 11:31 |
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184 | The improvements which, in modern times… | 11:35 |
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185 | At Rome, the study of the civil law made a part… | 11:22 |
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186 | It is otherwise in the barbarous societies… | 10:13 |
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187 | That in the progress of improvement, the practice… | 09:37 |
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188 | In the church of Rome the industry and zeal of the… | 10:00 |
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189 | The teachers of each sect, seeing themselves… | 08:57 |
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190 | The first of those remedies is the study of science… | 11:16 |
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191 | In the ancient constitution of the Christian church… | 10:05 |
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192 | The gradual improvements of arts, manufactures… | 10:28 |
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193 | In some countries, as in Scotland, where… | 09:38 |
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194 | Where the church benefices are all nearly equal… | 11:55 |
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195 | Part 4. Conclusion | 05:25 |
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196 | Chapter 2. Part 1 | 10:21 |
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197 | Land is a fund of more stable and permanent… | 11:16 |
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198 | Part 2 | 11:34 |
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199 | As the tax is made payable in money… | 12:51 |
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200 | If, by such a system of administration, a tax… | 12:11 |
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201 | In Asia, this sort of land tax is said to interest… | 11:35 |
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202 | The inequality with which a tax of this kind might… | 13:31 |
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203 | The natural tendency of the window tax… | 11:34 |
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204 | The canton of Underwald, in Switzerland… | 10:47 |
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205 | In France, the personal taille at present (1775)… | 10:46 |
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206 | Appendix to Articles 1 and 2 | 07:52 |
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207 | In Holland there are both stamp duties and duties… | 09:15 |
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208 | Article 3. Taxes upon the Wages of Labour | 08:54 |
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209 | Article 4. Taxes which it is intended should fall… | 06:51 |
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210 | Taxes upon Consumable Commodities | 08:19 |
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211 | Taxes upon luxuries have no tendency to… | 09:54 |
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212 | A coach may, with good management, last ten… | 12:52 |
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213 | That the mercantile system has not been… | 11:04 |
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214 | If, by such a system of administration, smuggling… | 12:10 |
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215 | In the porter brewery of London, a quarter of malt… | 11:45 |
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216 | Besides such duties as those of custom and excise… | 12:00 |
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217 | Thirdly, the hope of evading such taxes by smuggling… | 12:37 |
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218 | Taxes upon consumable commodities may either… | 14:33 |
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219 | Chapter 3 | 09:31 |
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220 | A country abounding with merchants… | 10:11 |
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221 | In 1701, those duties, with some others, were still… | 09:29 |
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222 | During the reigns of king William and queen Anne… | 09:52 |
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223 | The ordinary expense of the greater part of… | 06:38 |
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224 | In the war which began in 1702, and which was… | 08:42 |
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225 | The public funds of the different indebted nations… | 10:07 |
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226 | To transfer from the owners of those two great… | 12:53 |
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227 | Nations have sometimes, for the same purpose… | 09:30 |
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228 | The excise is the only part of the British system… | 12:58 |
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229 | The Americans, it has been said, indeed… | 09:12 |
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230 | It is not, therefore, the poverty of the colonies… | 12:37 |
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