 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 544 pages
...the commodities which are indifpenfably necefTary for the fupport of life, but whatever the cuftom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the loweft order, to be without. A linen fhirt, for example, is, ftrictly fpeaking, not a neceflary of... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...are either necessaries or luxuries. By necessaries I understand, not only the commo, fifties which are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for ex-, ample, is strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 520 pages
...necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the supT port of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 542 pages
...the commodities which are indifpenfably neceffary for the fupport of life, but whatever the cuftom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the loweft order, to be without. A linen fhirt, for example, is, ftri&ly fpeaking, not a neceffary of life.... | |
 | John Craig - Political science - 1814 - 420 pages
...in" dispengably necessary to the support of life, " but whatever the custom of the country ren" ders it indecent for creditable people, even of " the lowest order, to be without.'* The operation of taxes on such commodities, has been supposed by this profound author, and by many... | |
 | English literature - 1881 - 620 pages
...leave off — with a carriage and a wife. 'By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...indecent for creditable people even of the lowest class to be without. All other things I call luxuries.' — Adam Smith. ' How often has not the human... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1825 - 446 pages
...wages, is meant only, in the words of Dr Smith, such a rate as will enable the labourer to obtain " not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." Now it is plain, from this definition, that there neither is nor can be any absolute standard of natural... | |
 | Samuel Read (of Roslin.) - 1829 - 444 pages
...character of necessaries. " By necessaries," says Dr Smith, " I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...character of necessaries. " By necessaries," says Dr Smith, " I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Edinburgh review - 1833 - 736 pages
...increased economy ; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, — that is, of those commodities ' which the custom ' of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the ' lowest order, to be without*,' — be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect, placed... | |
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By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. 
