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[...]... price of the corn, the profits ofthe miller, andthe wages of his servants; in the price of bread, the profits ofthe baker, andthe wages of his servants; and in the price of both, the labour of transporting the corn from the house ofthe farmer to that ofthe miller, and from that ofthe miner to that ofthe baker, together with the profits of those who advance the wages of that labour The price of flax... tending and rearing him, andthe profits ofthe farmer who advances both the rent of this land, andthe wages of this labour Though the price ofthe corn, therefore, may pay the price as well as the maintenance ofthe horse, the whole price still resolves itself either immediately or ultimately into the same three parts of rent, labour, and profit In the price of flour or meal, we must add to the price of. .. by the wind only, was, by the smoothness of its surface, as well as by the multitude of its islands, andthe proximity of its neighbouring shores, extremely favourable to the infant navigation ofthe world; when, from their ignorance ofthe compass, men were afraid to quit the view ofthe coast, and from the imperfection ofthe art of shipbuild ing, to abandon themselves to the boisterous waves of the. .. the land is situated, and partly by the natural or improved fertility ofthe land These ordinary or average rates may be called the natural rates of wages, profit, and rent, at the time and place in which they commonly prevail When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent ofthe land, the wages ofthe labour, andthe profits ofthe stock employed in... the produce ofthe labour which is employed upon land The produce of almost all other labour is liable to the like deduction of profit In all arts and manufactures the greater part ofthe workmen stand in need of a master to advance them the materials of their work, and their wages and maintenance till it be completed He shares in the produce of their labour, or in the value which it adds to the materials... produce ofthe labour of every country, taken complexly, must resolve itself into the same three parts, and be parcelled out among different inhabitants ofthe country, either as the wages of their labour, the profits of their stock, or the rent of their land The whole of what is annually either collected or produced by the labour of every society, or what comes to the same thing, the whole price of it,... whom they will supply with materials and subsistence, in order to make a profit by the sale of their work, or by what their labour adds to the value ofthe materials In exchanging thecomplete manufacture either for money, for labour, or for other goods, over and above what may be sufficient to pay the price of the materials, andthe wages of the workmen, something must be given for the profits of the. .. nearly the same quantity of pure silver This degradation, therefore, in the value of the money rents of colleges, has arisen altogether from the degradation in the value of silver When the degradation in the value of silver is combined with the diminution ofthe quantity of it contained in the coin ofthe same denomination, the loss is frequently still greater In Scotland, where the denomination of the. .. all the three enter more or less, as component parts, into the price ofthe far greater part of commodities In the price of corn, for example, one part pays the rent ofthe landlord, another pays the wages or maintenance ofthe labourers and labouring cattle employed in producing it, andthe third pays the profit ofthe farmer These three parts seem either immediately or ultimately to make up the whole... materials of that labour As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce The wood ofthe forest, the grass ofthe field, and all the natural fruits ofthe earth, which, when land was in common, cost the labourer only the trouble of gathering them, come, even to him, to . in the remote and inland parts of the Highlands of Scotland. Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a day, and three hundred working days in the year, will make three hundred thousand. Africa, and all that part of Asia which lies any considerable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the ancient Scythia, the modern Tartary and Siberia, seem in all ages of the world to have. such as the Baltic and Adriatic seas in Europe, the Mediterranean and Euxine seas in both Europe and Asia, and the gulfs of Arabia, Persia, India, Bengal, and Siam, in Asia, to carry maritime commerce