... 1.
% 1. Ofthe Moral Sense in Man and the Animals.
% 2. Ofthe First and Second Degrees of Sociability.
% 3. Ofthe Third Degree of Sociability.
PART I 1.
% 1. Ofthe Causes of our Mistakes. ... the
principle of evil which lay dormant in society; we accuse men and gods, the powers
of earth and the forces of Nature. Instead of seeking the cause ofthe evil in his mind
and heart, man ...
is humanity to touch the customs of its ancestors, and to change the laws framed by
the founders of communities, and confirmed by the faithful observance ofthe ages.
Nihil motum ex antiquo...
... 1.
% 1. Ofthe Moral Sense in Man and the Animals.
% 2. Ofthe First and Second Degrees of Sociability.
% 3. Ofthe Third Degree of Sociability.
PART I 1.
% 1. Ofthe Causes of our Mistakes. ... the
principle of evil which lay dormant in society; we accuse men and gods, the powers
of earth and the forces of Nature. Instead of seeking the cause ofthe evil in his mind
and heart, man ...
is humanity to touch the customs of its ancestors, and to change the laws framed by
the founders of communities, and confirmed by the faithful observance ofthe ages.
Nihil motum ex antiquo...
... of this
revenue, or to contract debts, and what
have been the effects of those debts upon
the real wealth, the annual produce of the
land and labour ofthe society. BOOK
O N E OFTHE CAUSES OF
IMPROVEMENT ... of
Nations
Adam Smith
1776 ANINQUIRYINTOTHE NATURE
AND CAUSES OFTHEWEALTH OF
N A T I O N S by Adam Smith
INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE
WORK
THE annual labour of every nation is the
fund which originally ... ofthe flax and the wool, to the
bleachers and smoothers ofthe linen, or to
the dyers and dressers ofthe cloth! The
nature of agriculture, indeed, does not
admit of so many subdivisions of...
... branch ofthe linen and wool-
len manufactures, from the growers ofthe flax and the wool, to the bleach-
ers and smoothers ofthe linen, or to the dyers and dressers ofthe cloth!
The nature of ... that of a nailer in the
remote and inland parts ofthe Highlands of Scotland. Such a workman at
the rate of a thousand nails a day, and three hundred working days in the
TheWealthofNations ... though
all ofthe same species, are of scarce any use to one another. The strength
of the mastiff is not, in the least, supported either by the swiftness of the
greyhound, or by the sagacity ofthe spaniel,...
... workmen they want, and therefore bid against
one another in order to get as many as they can, which raises the wages of
labour, and lowers the profits of stock. In the remote parts ofthe country
there ... ruin the morals ofthe other.
The superiority ofthe independent workman over those servants who are
hired by the month or by the year, and whose wages and maintenance are
the same whether they ... from bankrupts. Among the barbarous nations
who overran the western provinces ofthe Roman empire, the performance
of contracts was left for many ages to the faith ofthe contracting parties.
The...
... place
is of very little importance to the real wealth and prosperity ofthe world,
to the real value ofthe annual produce ofthe land and labour of mankind.
Its nominal value, the quantity of gold and ... or of any other part of the
rude produce of land. The real value of gold and silver, therefore, the real
quantity of labour which they can purchase or command, depends much
more upon the quantity ... either of Holland
or ofthe territory of Genoa, while the number of their inhabitants remains
the same: diminish their power of supplying themselves from distant coun-
tries; and the price of...
... to the subject upon which it is bestowed, and,
consequently, the value ofthe annual produce ofthe land and labour of the
whole country, the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants. If the ... ]
quently the largest portion ofthe produce ofthe land is destined for repla-
cing the capital ofthe rich and independent farmer; the other for paying
his profits and the rent ofthe landlord. But anciently, ... the value of those metals, or occasion equal quantit-
ies of them to exchange for a smaller quantity of goods of any other kind.
The proportion between the value of gold and silver and that of...
... their work, and the means of
their subsistence. The quantity ofthe finished work which they sell to the
inhabitants ofthe country necessarily regulates the quantity ofthe ma-
terials and provisions ... chiefly in the exchange
of their own rude for the, manufactured produce of more civilised nations.
Thus the wool of England used to be exchanged for the wines of France
and the fine cloths of Flanders, ... supplying
their occasional wants, and who contribute still further to augment the
town. The inhabitants ofthe town and those ofthe country are mutually
the servants of one another. The town...
... made.
The thesis consists of three main parts: the introduction, the development, and the
conclusion. The introduction - gives rationale for the study and sets up the aims, scopes and
methods of ... deals with
the research methodology which covers participants, the settings ofthe study, the data collection
methods, the data analysis, and the findings and discussions. Chapter 3 offers some ... at Hanoi University of Industry” is submitted in partial fulfillment ofthe
requirements for the degree of Master of Arts is the result of my own work, except where
otherwise acknowledge and...
... between the two kinds of languages is that advertising language
is always well-planned in advance, and rarely random.
To achieve the functions of drawing the attention, building the interest and ... short slogans can not express fully the rich and
multi-layered meaning that a slogan wants to convey.
It can be concluded that the average length ofan airline
slogan is 5.12 words. It is the trend ... because this feature can ensure the briefness and condensedness ofthe slogans
where only the most informative or the most important message remains. More than half of
the slogans studied, which...
...
to show the students the approach to analyze the semantic meanings ofthe
sentence basing on its situations, presuppositions, and implicature. In terms of
translation, translators often have ... to the close and
intense relationship between the form and the meaning of a sentence (Thiêm,
2004). Comparing and contrasting questions in terms of their semantics enable us
to point out the ... confirmation, we can reverse
the position ofthe tag to the beginning ofthe question (Thiêm, 2004). The tags
can be put at the beginning or function as a new sentence to indicate the
speaker’s...
... 1049
Of the Expense ofthe Institutions for the Instruction of People of
all Ages 1049
An Inquiry
Intothe Nature
and Causes of the
Wealthof Nations
Adam Smith
AnInquiryintothe
Nature and ... to the infant navigation ofthe world; when, from their
ignorance ofthe compass, men were afraid to quit the view of the
coast, and from the imperfection ofthe art of shipbuilding, to
abandon ... Systems, or of those
Systems of Political Economy which represent the
Produce of Land as either the sole or the principal
Source ofthe Revenue and Wealth every Country 880
TheWealthof Nations: ...