 | Adam Smith - Division of labor - 1786 - 538 pages
...fave from their own fhare of the produce, becaufe the lord, who laid out nothing, was to get one-half of whatever it produced. The tithe, which is but a...improvement. A tax, therefore, which amounted to one-half, muft have been an effectual bar to it. It might be the intereft of a metayer to make the land produce... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 550 pages
...fave from their own fhare of the produce, becaufe the lord, who laid out nothing, was to get one-half of whatever it produced. The tithe, which is but a...improvement. A tax, therefore, which amounted to one-half, muft have been an effectual bar to it. It might be the intereft of a metayer to make the land produce... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1801 - 362 pages
...land, any part of the Jjttle ftock which they might fave from their own fliare of the produce, becaufe the lord, who laid out nothing, was to get one half of whatever jt produced. The tithe , which is but a tenth of the produce , is found to be a very great binderance... | |
 | Adam Smith - English literature - 1811 - 550 pages
...fave from their own fhare of the produce, becaufethe lord, who laid out nothing, was to get one-half of whatever it produced. The tithe, which is but a...improvement. A tax, therefore, which amounted to one-half, muft have been an effectual bar to it. It might be the intereft of a metayer to make the land produce... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...nothing, was to get one half of whatever itproduced. The tithe, which is but a tenth of the produce, i& found to be a very great hindrance to improvement. A tax, therefore, which amounted to one half, must have been an effectual bar to it. It might be the interest of a metayer ^to make the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...lay out, in the further improvement of the land, any part of the little stock which they might save from their own share of the produce, because the lord, who laid out nothing, was to get one-half of whatever it produced. The tithe, which is but a tenth of the produce, is found to be a... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...of to get one half of whatever it produced. The \ the proprietor. In England, besides, a I сам: tithe, which is but a tenth of the produce, is found...to improvement. A tax, therefore, which amounted to one half, must have been an effectual bar toit. It might be the interest of a metayer to make the land... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 600 pages
...lay out, in the further improvement of the land, any part of the little stock which they might save from their own share of the produce, because the lord,...was to get one half of whatever it produced." The substraction of a tithe from the annual produce of land, has a sensible effect in diminishing the tenant's... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1843 - 762 pages
...lay out, in the further improvement of the land, any part of the little stock which they might save from their own share of the produce, because the lord, who laid out nothing, was to get one-half of whatever it produced. The tithe, which is but a tenth of the produce, is found to be a... | |
 | India - 1866 - 512 pages
...so low a rate that it shall be no bar to improvement. Adam Smith says, ' the tithe which is but one tenth of ' the produce is found to be a very great...improvement. ' A tax, therefore, which amounted to one half must have been an ' effectual bar to it/ We will suppose a rate fixed for the whole of the... | |
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It could never, however, be the interest even of this last species of cultivators, to lay out, in the further improvement of the land, any part of the little stock which they might save from their own share of the produce, because the lord, who laid out... 
