 | James Wade - 1818 - 396 pages
...happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor find miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe,, and lodge the whole body...should have such a share of the produce of their own labours as to be themselves tolerably welt, fed, clothed, and lodged. • To drop all at once from... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...happy, of which the far greater part of the members arc poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should hnve such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be theinbelves tolerably well fed, clothed,... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1893 - 702 pages
...meaning for this country. Adam Smith has some views which it may be well to remember in this connection. "It is but equity that they who feed, clothe, and...should have such a share of the produce of their own labor, us to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged." — Wealth of Nations, Book i.... | |
 | g. berger - 1840 - 326 pages
...happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the prodwce of their own labour, as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. Government... | |
 | James Taylor (of Bakewell.) - 1852 - 96 pages
...of which the far greater part of the members " are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, " that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body...'' of the people, should have such a share of the pro" duce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably " well fed, clothed and lodged." From these... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1862 - 746 pages
...happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body...should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. The wages of the inferior classes... | |
 | James Suter - 1867 - 112 pages
...infect all classes with the plague of universal poverty, (Ricardo's Political Economy, chap. 6.) 17. " It is but equity that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole should be well fed, clothed, and lodged. The obstruction to the circulation of labour by the poor-laws... | |
 | William Godwin Moody - 1883 - 380 pages
...which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It la but equity, besides, that those who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the...should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged." " The liberal reward of labor,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 pages
...inis*r.ibli. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of tile people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be tliem•elvc* tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged. Poverty, though it no doubt discourages, docs... | |
 | 1885 - 568 pages
...happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body...share of the produce of their own labour as to be tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged themselves."—ADAM SMITH'S Wealth of Natunu (Book I. chap.... | |
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce... 
