 What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of...  Committee Prints - Page 2036by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1964Full view - About this book
 | Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - 1803 - 446 pages
...attempt to make at home what it will cost him mort to make than to lniy ..... what is prudence in thé conduct Of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a gréât Kingdom „. Adam Smith Wcalth of nations. Book IV. Çh. U VoL II. p. 183. A GENE VE , Chez... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 538 pages
...produce, or what is the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it,... | |
 | 1811 - 558 pages
...or what is the same thing, with the price of a part of " it, whatever else they have occasion for. " What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, " can scarce be folly, in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign " country, can supply us with a commodity, cheaper than we " ourselves can make... | |
 | Francis d' Ivernois - 1812 - 360 pages
...master ofafamily, never to attempt to make at home, what it will cosl htm more to tuake than to buy what is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. * Cette proposition ne s'applique guère moins à la Grande-Bretagne, sous le rapport des... | |
 | George Brodie - 1822 - 504 pages
...ilnct., or, what is the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it,... | |
 | 1835 - 520 pages
...produce, or, what is the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." We may leave our author in calm possession of this conclusion. It turns, however, upon this,... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1835 - 526 pages
...produce, or, what is the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." The fact stated by Mr. Rae shows that this rule, like most others, is liable to exceptions.... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...produce, or what is the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it,... | |
 | 1841 - 618 pages
...or, what is the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. " What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it,... | |
 | Sir Robert Peel - 1849 - 82 pages
...shoemaker. The shoemaker does not make his own clothes, but employs a tailor." He says, moreover, that " what is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." Now let us consider the case of two artisans or dealers resident in the same town. The shoemaker... | |
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