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" ... is supposed to be greater than the returns, of which every operation eats up a part of the capital employed in it, and which is of such a nature, that, if all other trades resembled it, there would soon be no capital left in the country. "
The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge - Page 685
1853
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Division of labor - 1786 - 538 pages
...lofs, and to encourage him to continue, or perhaps to begin, a trade of which the expence is fuppofed to be greater than the returns, of which every operation...part of the capital employed in it, and which is of fuch a nature, that, if all other trades refemble.d it, there would foon be no capital left in the...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 550 pages
...lofs, and to encourage him to continue, or perhaps to begin, a trade of which the expence is fuppofed to be greater than the returns, of which every operation...part of the capital employed in it, and which is of fuch a nature, that, if all other trades refembled it, there would foon be no capital left in the country....
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 538 pages
...him to send them to market. The bounty is given in order to make up this loss, and to encourage him to continue, or perhaps to begin a trade, of which...there would soon be no capital left in the country. The trades, it is to be observed, which are carried on by means of bounties, are the only ones which...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...make up this loss, and to encourage him to continue,or perhaps to begin a trade, of which the expence is supposed to be greater than the returns, of which...all other trades resembled it, there would soon be io capital left in the country. The trades, it is to be observed, which arc carried on by means of...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 544 pages
...lofs, and to encourage him to continue, or perhaps to begin, a trade of which the expence is. fuppofed to be greater than the returns, of which every operation...part of the capital employed in it, and which is of fuch a nature, that, if all other trades refembled it, there would foon be no capital left in the country....
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volumes 1-2; Volume 5

Walter Scott - Europe - 1814 - 542 pages
...loss, and to encourage him to continue, or perhaps to begin, a trade of which the expence is sapposed to be greater than the returns ; of which every operation...there would soon be no capital left in the country." — In this passage, Dr Smith has accurately summed up the objections to bounties ; and if he had stopped...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Part 2

Walter Scott - Europe - 1814 - 536 pages
...up this loss, and to encourage him to continue, or pelrhaps to begin, a trade of which the expence is supposed to be greater than the returns ; of which every operation eats up t part of the capital employed in it, and which is of such a nature, that, if all other trades resembled...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 2

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 370 pages
...him to send them to market. The bounty is given in order to make up this loss, and to encourage him to continue, or perhaps to begin a. trade, of which...there would soon be no capital left in the country. See DRAWRACK, PRKMIUM. BOW, a weapon of offence made of steel, wood, horn, or other elastic matter,...
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 2

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 376 pages
...him to send them to market. The bounty is given in order to make up this loss, and to encourage him to continue, or perhaps to begin a trade, of which the expense is supposed to be greatt-r than the returns, of which every operation eats up a part of the capital employed in it, and...
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A Treatise on the Principles, Practice, & History of Commerce

John Ramsay McCulloch - Commerce - 1833 - 144 pages
...him to send them to market. The bounty is given in order to make up this loss, and to encourage him to continue, or perhaps to begin, a trade of -which...there would soon be no capital left in the country. ' The trades, it is to be observed, which are carried on by means of bounties, are the only ones which...
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