 ... the smuggler is often encouraged to continue a trade which he is thus taught to consider as in some measure innocent; and when the severity of the revenue laws is ready to fall upon him, he is frequently disposed to defend with violence, what he has...  Tracts of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association - Page 7by Financial Reform Association (Liverpool, England) - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...frequently disposed .to defend with violence, what he has been accustomed to regard as his just property. From being at first, perhaps, rather imprudent than...officer; and is employed in maintaining unproductive,* to the diminution of the general capital of the society, and of the useful industry which it might... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 532 pages
...of the hardieft and mofl determined violators of the laws of fociety. By the ruin of the fmuggler, his capital, which had before been employed in maintaining productive labour, is abforbed either in the revenue of the ftate or in that of the revenue-officer, and is employed in maintaining... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...been accustomed to regard as his. just property. From being at first, perhaps, rather imprudent thon criminal, he at last too often becomes one of the...productive labour, is absorbed either in the revenue oi' the state, or in that of the revenue officer; and ¡s employed in maintaining unproductive, to... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...frequently disposed to defend with violence, what he has been accustomed to regard as his just property. From being at first, perhaps, rather imprudent than...either in the revenue of the state or in that of the revenue-officer, and is employed in maintaining unproductive, to the diminution of the general capital... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1843 - 506 pages
...frequently disposed to defend with violence, what he has been accustomed to regard as his just property. F.rom being at first, perhaps, rather imprudent than...either in the revenue of the state or in that of the revenue-officer, and is employed in maintaining unproductive, to the diminution of the general capital... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1860 - 72 pages
...as one of those pedantic pieces of hypocrisy, which, instead of gaining credit with any body, seems only to expose the person who affects to practise...and most determined violators of the laws of society " (p. 407. See Indirect also Montesquieu, Esprit des Loix, liv. xiii., cap. 8.) Taxes. To create, by... | |
 | Charles Tennant - England - 1862 - 746 pages
...frequently disposed to defend with violence, what he has been accustomed to regard as his just property. From being, at first, perhaps, rather imprudent than...last too often becomes one of the hardiest and most determiued violators of the laws of society. By the ruin of the smuggler, his capital, which had before... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Debts, Public - 1863 - 548 pages
...him, he is frequently disposed to defend with violence what he has been accustomed to regard as Ids just property; and, from being at first, perhaps,...most determined violators of the laws of society." * Those who supply cheap tea, tobacco, spirits, &c., though at the expense of the revenue, will never... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 870 pages
...frequently disposed to defend with violence what he has been accustomed to regard as his just property. From being at first, perhaps, rather imprudent than...had before been employed in maintaining productive hibour, is absorbed either in the revenue of (ho Stale or in that of the ruvi-niir officer, and is... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...frequently disposed to defend with violence what he has been accustomed to regard as his just property. From being at first, perhaps, rather imprudent than...is absorbed either in the revenue of the state or of the revenue officer, and is employed in maintaining unproductive labour to the diminution of the... | |
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