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" For a pair of diamond buckles, perhaps, or for something as frivolous and useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of a thousand men for a year, and with it the whole weight and authority which it... "
History of the Middle and Working Classes: With a Popular Exposition of the ... - Page 20
by John Wade - 1835 - 604 pages
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 550 pages
...they exchanged the maintenance, or what is the fame thing, the price of the maintenance of a thoufand men for a year, and with it the whole weight and authority which it could give them. The buckles, however, were to be all their own, and no other human creature was to have any fhare of...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Adam Smith - English literature - 1811 - 550 pages
...they exchanged the maintenance, or what is the fame thing, the price of the maintenance of a thoufand men for a year, and with it the whole weight and authority which it could give them. The buckles, however, were to be all their own, and no other human creature was to have any mare of...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Economics - 1822 - 562 pages
...something as frivolous and useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of a thousand men for a year, and...whole weight and authority which it could give them. The buckles, however, were to be all their own, and no other human creature was to have any share of...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With a comm ...

Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...something as frivolous and useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of a thousand men for a year, and...whole weight and authority which it could give them. The buckles, however, were to be all their own, and no other human creature was to have any share of...
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England's Greatness: Its Rise and Progress in Government, Laws, Religion ...

John Wade - England - 1856 - 862 pages
...the productions of art. For a pair of diamond buckles, or something as frivolous, Dr. Smith remarks, they exchanged the maintenance of a thousand men for...whole weight and authority which it could give them. By this exchange of elegant luxury for rude profusion social happiness was doubtless augmented. The...
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The Resources of a Nation: A Series of Essays

Rowland Hamilton - Civilization - 1863 - 420 pages
...as frivolous and useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or, what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance, of a thousand men for a year, and...whole weight and authority which it could give them. The buckles, however, were to be all their own, and no other human creature was to have any share of...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 58

Literature - 1865 - 672 pages
...something as frivolous and as useless, exchanged the maintenance, or, what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of a thousand men for a year, and...whole weight and authority which it could give them, — incidentally illustrates an unamiable phase of the same feeling. " The buckles were to be all their...
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Recreations of a Recluse, Volume 1

Francis Jacox - Literature - 1870 - 328 pages
...something as frivolous and as useless, exchanged the maintenance, or, what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of a thousand men for a year, and...the whole weight and authority which it could give them—incidentally illustrates an unamiable phase of the same feeling. '" The buckles were to be all...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. A careful ...

Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...something as frivolous and useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance, of a thousand men for a year, and...whole weight and authority which it could give them. The buckles, however, were to be all their own, and no other human creature was to have any share of...
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The Celtic magazine, conducted by A. Mackenzie and A. MacGregor, Volume 8

Alexander Mackenzie - 1883 - 636 pages
...as frivolous and useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or, what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of a thousand men for a year, and...whole weight and authority which it could give them. The buckles, however, were to be all their own, and no human creature was to have any share of them...
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