 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 Seiten
...not only the commo, 4jties 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. A linen shirt, for example, is strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 Seiten
...obtain " not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...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 - 1829 - 444 Seiten
...necessary for the " This of course includes the meaning no* to marry without. support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...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,... | |
 | 1835 - 858 Seiten
...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...people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -{• — be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect,... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1836 - 434 Seiten
...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...people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -j—be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 Seiten
...the commodities which are indispcnsibly necessary tor the support of life, hut whatever the custom uf the country renders it indecent for 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 - 1839 - 448 Seiten
...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. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 452 Seiten
...Adam Smith, "not only such things as are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." The quantity and kind of these things depend, not only on the habits and customs of the people, but... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 776 Seiten
...obtain not only the commodities which are indispensably neceseary 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. In this there is an obvious confusion between cause and effect. Custom renders it discreditable to... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1849 - 686 Seiten
...obtain, "not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." Now it is plain, from this definition, that there can be no absolute standard of natural or necessary... | |
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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. 
