 | Henri Sée - 1928 - Страниц: 298
...experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demeiistrates that the work done by slaves, although it appears to cost only their maintenance, is, in the end, the dearest of any. A person who can acquire no property can have no other interest but to eat as much and to labour as... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1922 - Страниц: 522
...they employ slaves for their workmen. The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to...only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of anv. A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - Страниц: 872
...aware of (I. 17). Upon the latter, "The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any" (I. 365). His is a doctrine of hope for the individual and doom for the nation. But for island Britain,... | |
 | Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward - 1985 - Страниц: 222
...demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears Abolition and the National Interest 105 to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any.'29 Similarly, we have Dr Thomas Cooper, President of South Carolina College, saying in his Lectures... | |
 | David S. Shields - 2010 - Страниц: 310
...during the 1 80os, Smith declared that "the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to...only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of all. A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour... | |
 | E. Valentine Daniel, Henry Bernstein, Tom Brass - 1992 - Страниц: 314
...tasks below the capacities of the best workers. Tinker [1974: 8] quotes the famous view of Adam Smith: 'The work done by slaves, though it appears to cost...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any. A person who can acquire no property can have no other interest than to rest as much, and to labour... | |
 | Wolfgang Binder - 1993 - Страниц: 666
...regards slavery itself as uneconomical: 'The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any." (Smith, 488) The use of a persona in this essay must, of course, make us cautious as to presuming an... | |
 | Martin A. Klein - 1993 - Страниц: 240
...perspective. We hope that we will leave the reader asking more questions than we have answered. Notes 2. "The work done by slaves, though it appears to cost...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any. A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour... | |
 | Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - 1995 - Страниц: 544
...by slaves." And again (page 159): "the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to...only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any."1 3 He believes, and so he passes on from this merely incidental topic to more immediate objects... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1996 - Страниц: 756
...cultivation" — they are, economically speaking, wasteful and peculiar luxuries. For, as Smith reiterates, "the work done by slaves, though it appears to cost...only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any."8 Smith's supporting arguments for this position are a mixture of economic analysis and deductive... | |
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The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any. 
