 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1821 - 482 páginas
...be. IT has been justly stated by Adam Smith, that a man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. And it follows from this definition that, if the bounty of nature furnished all the necessaries,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1822 - 578 páginas
...Price of Commodities^ opens in these words: " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life." This definition does not please M. SAY ; he deems it incorrect as it regards individuals,... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 302 páginas
...Dr. Smith but remembered his own aphorism, that "every man is rich or pool according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life;" and had he, by his usual train oi reasoning, generalized this proposition, by applying to the whole... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 276 páginas
...Dr. Smith but remembered his own aphorism, that "every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life;" and had he, by his usual train of reasoning, generalized this proposition, by applying to the whole... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 278 páginas
...Dr. Smith but remembered his own aphorism, that "every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life;" and had he, by his usual train of reasoning, generalized this proposition, by applying to the whole... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1829 - 688 páginas
...quantity of riches. When Adam Smith says, that " every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life,"* he gives a just description of riches ; but when he goes on to say, that the man is rich... | |
 | Pablo Pebrer - 1833 - 610 páginas
...nature. In feet, if according to Smith's definition, " a man is rich or poor, according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of life ", highly increased prices, by diminishing the power of income, and consequently the facility of acquiring... | |
 | Mountifort Longfield - 1834 - 302 páginas
...passage, where he first introduces that doctrine: " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. But after the division of labour has once thoroughly taken place, it is but a very small... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 886 páginas
...be almost self-evident and incontrovertible. "Every man is rich or poor, according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life."-]- And, as it is conceded on all hands, that these necessaries and conveniences,—whatever... | |
 | 1850 - 716 páginas
...possess and to employ it ? " Every man," it has bei-n said, " is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences and amusements of human life .... the far greater part of these he must derive from the labor of other people, and he... | |
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THE DEGREE IK WHICH HE CAN AFFORD TO ENJOY THE NECESSARIES. CONVENIENCES, AND AMUSEMENTS OF LIFE ; only a small part of which can be supplied by a man's own labour ; the greater part must be derived from the labour of other people, and which he must purchase; 
