 | Adam Smith - Division of labor - 1786 - 538 pages
...foreign goods dearer, but to fell our own cheaper, than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defence, however, is of much more importance than...opulence, 'the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wifeft of all the commercial regulations of England. THE fecond cafe, in which it will generally be... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 550 pages
...foreign goods dearer, but to fell our own cheaper, than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wifeft of all the commercial regulations of England. THE fecond cafe, in which it will generally be... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...foreign goods dearer, but to sell our own cheaper, than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defence, however, is of much more importance than...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England. The second case, in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 852 pages
...foreign goods dearer, bu^ to fell our own cheaper, than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wifeftof all the commercial regulations of England. The fecond cafe, in which it will generally be... | |
 | Charles Ganilh - Comparative economics - 1812 - 504 pages
...when her act of Navigation was framed ; " an act prejudicial to the growth of wealth : but as defence is of much more importance than opulence, the act...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England."* This manner of viewing the English act of Navigation betrays in the author a greater attachment to... | |
 | Wyndham Beawes - Commerce - 1813 - 786 pages
...buy foreign goods dearer, but to sell our' own cheaper, than if there was a perfect freedom of trade. As defence, however, is of much more importance than...the Act of Navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all commercial regulations of England.! " Experience," says Mr. Reeves, Ï " has shewn the advantage of... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...growth of that' opulence which arises out of it; and concludes that, ' as defence is much more important than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps,...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.' So, however, think not the ship-builders on the banks of the Thames. Not more pregnant with evils was... | |
 | 1813 - 560 pages
...growth of that opulence which arises out of it; and concludes that, ' as defence is much more important than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps,...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.' But further, say the advocates of the Thames ship-builders, we may lose India, and the enemy get possession... | |
 | England - 1848 - 802 pages
...national animosity, they 'are all as irise as if dictated by the most deliberate wisdom. As defence is of much more importance than opulence, the act...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." * It appears from the parliamentary tables compiled by Mr Porter, that, while the British tonnage with... | |
 | England - 1882 - 870 pages
...foreign goods dearer, but to sell our own cheaper, than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defence, however, is of much more importance than...navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial relations of England." "We do not quote this opinion of Adam Smith as an argument in favour of protection... | |
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As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England. 
