In the same class must be ranked, some both of the gravest and most important, and some of the most frivolous professions: churchmen, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buffoons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, &c. The Principles of Political Economy: With a Sketch of the Rise and Progress ... - Page 405by John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 423 pagesFull view - About this book
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 538 pages
...security, and defence, for the year to come. In the same class must be ranked, some both of the gravest and most important, and some of the most frivolous...by the very same principles which regulate that of ever other sort of labour ; and that of the noblest and most useful produces nothing which could afterwards... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...security, and defence for the year to come. In the same class must be ranked, some both ofthe gravest and most important, and some of the most frivolous...musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, • &c. The labour ofthe meanest of these has a certain value, regulated by the very same principles which regulate that... | |
| John Craig - Political science - 1814 - 408 pages
...unpro" ductive labourers. In the same class must be «' ranked some of the gravest and most import" ant, and some of the most frivolous, professions: " churchmen,...letters " of all kinds, players, buffoons, musicians, ope** ra-singers, opera-dancers, &c. The labour of " the meanest of these has a certain value, regu"... | |
| English literature - 1814 - 698 pages
...whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers. In the same class must be ranked some of the gravest and most important, and some of the most frivolous,...professions ; churchmen, lawyers, physicians^ men qf letters of all kinds, players, buffoons, musiciaps, opera-singers, opera-dancers, &c. The labour... | |
| Simon Gray - Economics - 1817 - 366 pages
...lawyers, physicians, men o?lett6rs' of\41j: kinds, players, buffoons," mirsielatfs; " ope'rar, singers, opera-dancers, &c. The labour of the meanest of these...value, regulated by the very same principles which regulatey that of every other sort of labour ; and that of, the noblest and most useful, produces nothing... | |
| Simon Gray - Malthusianism - 1818 - 550 pages
...the statistician must be completely ignorant of his subject who could deny it, that the labour of <* churchmen, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds, players, buffoons, musicians, opera singers, opera dancers, &c. have a certain exchangeable value;'' but he denies that this is equivalent... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1819 - 532 pages
...security and defence, for the year to come. In the same class must be ranked, some both of the gravest and most important, and some of the most frivolous...musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, &c. The labour of ihe meanest of these has a certain value, regulated by the very same principles which regulate that... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1825 - 204 pages
...come. In the same- class must be ranked some both of the greatest and most important, and some ofthe most frivolous professions : churchmen, lawyers, physicians,...musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, &c. The labour ofthe meanest of these has a certain value, regulated by the very same principles which regulate that... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...security, and defence, for the year to come. In the same class, must be ranked some, both of the gravest and most important, and some of the most frivolous...certain value, regulated by the very same principles 52 M'Culloch's Political Economy. [September, which regulate that of every other sort of labour; and... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...security, and defence, for the year to come. In the same class Hiu-T be ranked, some both of the gravest and most important, and some of the most frivolous...physicians, men of letters of all kinds ; players, butfoons, musicians, opera-singers, operadancers, &c. The labour of the meanest of these has a certain... | |
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