| John Dickinson - United States - 1801 - 450 pages
...proper subjects of taxation, it must in cases of urgent necessity, have recourse to improper ones. " WHEN national debts have once been accumulated to...paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by a bankruptcy ; sometimes by an avowed... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her. When national debts have once been accumulated to...paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by a bankruptcy ; sometimes by an avowed... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 532 pages
...debts have once been accumulated to a certain degree, there is fcarce, I believe, a fingle inftance of their having been fairly and completely paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by a bankruptcy ; fometimes by an avowed... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1819 - 518 pages
...distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her. When national debts hare once been accumulated to a certain degree, there is...paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by a bankruptcy ; sometimes by an avowed... | |
| Benjamin Sayer - Income tax - 1833 - 462 pages
...tem" porary distresses, should induce us to relax in our attention to " that great object."f โ " When National Debts have once been " accumulated to...certain degree, there is scarce I believe a single 342 " instance of their having been completely and fairly paid. The " liberation of the Public Revenue,... | |
| Joseph Gales - United States - 1834 - 646 pages
...when national debts have once been funded, aud accumulated to a certain degree, there is scarcely, 1 believe, a single instance of their having been fairly...and completely paid. The liberation of the public revenues, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by a bankruptcy;... | |
| Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her. When national debts have once been accumulated to...paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by a bankruptcy ; sometimes by an avowed... | |
| Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 456 pages
...debt is an evil by its creating a property of an immense amount, the title to which is insecure. " When national debts have once been accumulated to a certain degree, there is scarcely a single instance of their having been fairly and completely paid. The liberation of the public... | |
| Henry Nicholas Sealy - Banks and banking - 1858 - 690 pages
...convertibility of the Bank of England note has been kept above suspicion." Adam Smith, B. 5, c. 3 : โ " When national debts have once been accumulated to...paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by a bankruptcy ; sometimes by an avowed... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 870 pages
...burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her. degree, there is scarce, I believe, n single instance of their having been fairly and completely...paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by a bankruptcy ; sometimes ะชั an avowed... | |
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