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" For," as Mun privately wrote, "if we only behold the actions of the husbandman in the seed-time when he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we will rather accompt him a madman than a husbandman; but when we consider his labours "
History of India: The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the ... - Page 168
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Elements of Political Economy

Arthur Latham Perry - Economics - 1875 - 590 pages
...exporting gold and silver, to the seed-time and harvest of agriculture. " If we only behold," says he, " the actions of the husbandman in the seed-time, when...he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. But when we consider his labors in the harvest,...
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Elements of Political Economy

Arthur Latham Perry - Economics - 1875 - 582 pages
...exporting gold and silver, to the seed-time and harvest of agriculture. " If we only behold," says he, " the actions of the husbandman in the seed-time, when...he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. But when we consider his labors in the harvest,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Economics - 1880 - 610 pages
...operation of foreign trade to the seed-time and harvest of agriculture. t If we only behold,' says he, ' the actions of the husbandman in the seed-time, when...he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. But when we consider his labours in the harvest,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1884 - 604 pages
...operation of foreign trade to the seed-time and harrest of agriculture. ' If we only behold,* says he, ' the actions of the husbandman in the seedtime, when...he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rath« a madman than a husbandman. But when w« consider his labours in the harvest,...
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A Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith: Author of the 'Moral Sentiments ...

Adam Smith - Early printed books - 1894 - 174 pages
...NECKER (Jacques). NEWTON (Isaac). W. of N. IV. i. 188. 2. Adam Smith quotes from ch. iv. p. 28 of Mun : "If we only behold the actions of the husbandman in the seed-time," etc. (where Mun wishes to show that by allowing gold and silver to go abroad to buy foreign goods,...
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A Short History of English Commerce and Industry

Langford Lovell Price - Commerce - 1900 - 280 pages
...further than the beginning of the work, which misinforms their judgments, and leads them into error: For if we only behold the actions of the Husbandman in...than a Husbandman: but when we consider his labours in the Harvest, which is the end of his endeavours, we find the worth and plentifull encrease of his...
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A History of British India: To the union of the old and new companies under ...

William Wilson Hunter - India - 1900 - 480 pages
...countries, and our want of their commodities which causeth the vent and consumption on all sides.' 3 'For,' as Mun privately wrote : 'if we only behold the actions of the husbandman in the seed1 The Petition and Remonstrance, pp. 13, 17, 19, 22, 24, 25. 2 548.090Z. from 1601 to July 1620,...
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The Library of Original Sources: Advance in knowledge, 1650-1800

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 484 pages
...operation of foreign trade to the seed-time and harvest of agriculture. "If we only behold," says he, "the actions of the husbandman in the seed-time, when...he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. But when we consider his labours in the harvest,...
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The Library of Original Sources, Volume 10

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 524 pages
...operation of foreign trade to the seed-time and harvest of agriculture. "If we only behold," says he, "the actions of the husbandman in the seed-time, when...he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. But when we consider his labours in the harvest,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1909 - 644 pages
...operation of foreign trade to the seed-time and harvest of agriculture. "If we only behold," says he, "the actions of the husbandman in the seedtime, when...he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. But when we consider his labours in the harvest,...
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