...this branch of the subject, were not so happy and exempt from question, as in the earlier analysis. "The annual labour of every nation is the fund which...conveniences of life which it annually consumes." Such were the opening words of the " Wealth of Nations," and the truth of the statement cannot be impugned....

...this branch of the subject, were not so happy and exempt from question, as in the earlier analysis. " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which...conveniences of life which it annually consumes." Such were the opening words of the " Wealth of Nations," and the truth of the statement cannot be impugned....

...as capital, and the original, fundamental capital of society, Adam Smith says : " The annual labor of every nation is the fund which originally supplies...conveniences of life which it annually consumes." Stronger still, and more direct, he says : " Labor was the first price, the original purchase money...

...laid down at the commencement of this inquiry, and are now referred to. The annual labour and skill of every nation is the fund which originally supplies...with all the necessaries and conveniences of life, either in the immediate produce of that labour and skill, or in what is purchased with that produce...

...necessities of animal nature." — Chalmers, p. 59. Wealth — the Means of Obtaining and Increasing it. " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which...is purchased with that produce from other nations." — Smith, introd. " The materials of all wealth originate primarily in the bosom of the earth, but...

...quite different nature, and fall upon different funds. Tares upon the Wages of Labor. The annual labor of every nation is the fund which originally supplies...consist always either in the immediate produce of that labor, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. A man must always live by his...

...flung the web of death. From GOETHE. MR. STACR. Translate the following passage into Greek Prose : — The annual labour of every nation is the fund which...originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate...

...unfavourably : I mean the " land and labour " of the nation. Now Smith begins his book with saying that : " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which...is purchased with that produce from other nations." Elsewhere, using the phrase "land and labour," he gives us to understand, that though labour is that...

...unfavourably: I mean the " land and labour" of the nation. Now Smith begins his book with saying that: " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which...is purchased with that produce from other nations." Elsewhere, using the phrase "land and labour," he gives us to understand, that though labour is that...

...premises of the entire argument are stated in the opening sentence as follows : " The annual labor of every nation is the fund which originally supplies...which it annually consumes, and which consist always in the immediate produce of that labor or what is purchased with that produce from other nations."...