| Jean Charles L. Simonde de Sismondi - 1803 - 450 pages
...de Genève. TOME PREMIER. " IT is the maxiin of every prudent master of a family , never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy what is prudence in the comlutt pf every private family, can scarce befolly in that of a greât Kingdom... | |
| Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - 1803 - 460 pages
...d'Agriculture de Genève. TOME SECOND. " IT is the nuxini of evcry prudent master of a famil y never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make tban to buy «lut is prudence in the conduct ofeveryprivate family- canscarce befully in tbat of a... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt... | |
| Adam Smith - 1819 - 532 pages
...it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make thap to buy. The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. The... | |
| Mathew Carey - 1820 - 312 pages
...foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful. " It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt... | |
| George Brodie - 1822 - 570 pages
...foreign, industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at hone what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt... | |
| 1835 - 520 pages
...argument opposed to an opinion of Adam Smith's, which is thus expressed in the Wealth of Nations. " It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1835 - 526 pages
...argument opposed to an opinion of Adam Smith's, which is thus expressed in the Wealth of Nations. " It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt... | |
| Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt... | |
| Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 636 pages
...procure them by means of the trade carried on with those tribes. Dr. Smith on this subject observes, " It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt... | |
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