 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...c " A pdually diminifh. When the moft fertile and beft fituated lands haye been all occupied, lefs profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior both in foil and fituation, and lefs intereft can be afforded for the ftock which is fo employed. In the greater... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812
...c HAP. dually diminifh. When the moft fertile and beft fituated lands have bee1vall occupied, lefs profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior both in foil and fituation, and lefs intereft can be afforded for the ftock which is fo employed. In the greater... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...CHAP. dually diminifh. When the moft fertile and beft Ixfituated lands have been all occupied, lefs profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior both in foil and fituation, and lefs intereft can be afforded for the ftock which is fo employed. In the greater... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...greatest discoveries of the present day. In observing, as we see he has done, in the above passage, that " when the most fertile and best situated lands have...can be afforded for the stock which is so employed," Dr Smith was stating a certain and obvious fact ; but it was equally obvious (and no doubt appeared... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 440 pages
...discoveries of the present day. In observing, ' as we see he has done, in the above passage, that " when the most fertile and best situated lands have...interest can be afforded for the stock which is so employed,1" Dr Smith was stating a certain and obvious fact ; but it was equally obvious (and no doubt... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...can find them in a new settlement. Those whom he can find, therefore, are very liberally rewarded. As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually...less profit can be made by the cultivation of what i* inferior both in soil and situation, and less interest can be afforded for the slot k which h so... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1848 - 590 pages
...profit in new colonies, he seems on the very verge of grasping the complete theory of the subject. " As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually...cultivation of what is inferior both in soil and situation." Had Adam Smith meditated longer on the subject, and systematized his view of it by harmonizing with... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1849 - 588 pages
...profit in new colonies, he seems on the very verge of grasping the complete theory of the subject. " As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually...cultivation of what is inferior both in soil and situation." Had Adam Smith meditated longer on the subject, and systematized his view of it by harmonizing with... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1852 - 858 pages
...on the profits of stock, speaking of the colony of America, he says : '. " As the colony increusi'x, the profits of stock gradually diminish. When the...fertile and best situated lands have been all occupied, lets profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior, both in soil and situation, and less... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1855 - 490 pages
...of such lands must yield a very large profit, and consequently afford to pay a very large interest. As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually...less interest can be afforded for the stock which is employed. In the greater part of our colonies, accordingly, both the legal * [Wealth of Natwta, Book... | |
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As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually diminish. When the most fertile and best situated lands have been all occupied, less profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior both in soil and situation. 
