 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...thoufand pounds. The directors of fuch companies, however, being th: managers rather of other peoples money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they mould watch over it with the fame anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1801 - 448 pages
...amounts, atprefent, to ten millions feven hundred and eighty thoufand pounds. The direclors of fuch companies, however, being the managers rather of other...people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expecled that they fhould watch over it with the fame anxious vigilance with which the partners in... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...bank of England amounts, at present, to ten millions seven hundred and eighty thousand pounds. r£ he directors of such companies, however, being the managers...vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery fre. quently watch over their own. Like the stewards pf a rich man, they are apt to consider attention... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...time, amounted to upwards of thirty-three millions eight hundred thoufand pounds. The directors of fuch companies, however, being the managers rather of other...people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expefted that they fliould watch over it with the fame anxious vigilance with which the partners in... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 532 pages
...amounts, at prefent, to ten millions feven hundred and eighty thoufand pounds. The directors of fuch companies, however, being the managers rather of other...of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they fhould watch over it with the fame anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...of the South Sea company, at owe time, amounted to upwards of L. 33,800,000. The directors of fuch companies, however, being the managers rather of other...of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they thouM watch over it with the lame anxious vigilance, with which the partners in a private copartnery... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...South-Sea Company, at one time, amounted to upwards of thirty-three millions eight hundred thousand pounds. The directors of such companies, however, being the...frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a ricb man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters as not for their master's honour, and... | |
 | 1863 - 682 pages
...rather the managers of other people's money than their own, it cannot well be expected that they shall watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with...co-partnery frequently watch over their own. Like the steward of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to miuor matters as not for their master's... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...the Bank of England amounts, at present, to ten millions seven hundred and eighty thousand pounds. The directors of such companies, however, being the...cannot well be expected that they should watch over k with the same -xious vigilance with which the partners in private copartnery frequently watch over... | |
 | Charles Henry Stephens - Corporation law - 1881 - 680 pages
...managers of other people's money, rather than their own, it cannot well be expected that they would watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with...partners in a private co-partnery frequently watch over theirs. It is on this account that Joint Stock Companies for foreign trade have seldom been able to... | |
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The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently... 
