The Wealth of Nations_ Books 4-5 - Adam Smith [354]
Greek language, how introduced as part of university education, 355. Philosophy, the three great branches of, 356.
Ground rents, great variations of, according to situation, 432. Are a more proper subject of taxation than houses, 435.
Gum senega, review of the regulations imposed on the trade for, 242.
Gunpowder, great revolution effected in the art of war by the invention of, 296–7. This invention favourable to the extension of civilisation, 297.
Gustavus, Vasa, how enabled to establish the reformation in Sweden,395.
Hamburg, agio of the bank of, explained, 58. Sources of the revenue of that city, 407, 410. The inhabitants of, how taxed by the state, 443.
Hanseatic league, causes that rendered it formidable, 501. Why no vestige remains of the wealth of the Hans towns, 519.
Hearth money, why abolished in England, 438–9.
Henry VIII. of England, prepares the way for the reformation by shutting out the authority of the Pope, 396.
Herring buss bounty, remarks on, 96. Fraudulent claims of the bounty, 97. The boat fishery the most natural and profitable, 98. Account of the British white-herring fishery 99–100. Account of the busses fitted out in Scotland, the amount of their cargoes, and the bounties on them, 553.
Hides, the produce of rude countries, commonly carried to a distant market, 335. Price of, in England three centuries ago, 338. Salted hides inferior to fresh ones, 339. The price of, how affected by circumstances, in cultivated and in uncultivated countries, 340.
Highlands of Scotland, interesting remarks on the population of, 182. Military character of the Highlanders, 289.
Hobbes, Mr, remarks on his definition of wealth, 134.
Hogs, circumstances which render their flesh cheap or dear, 331.
Holland, observations on the riches and trade of the republic of, 194. Not to follow some business, unfashionable there, 199. Cause of the dearness of corn there, 295. Enjoys the greatest share in the carrying trade of Europe, 473. How the Dutch were excluded from being the carriers to Great Britain, 40. Is a country that prospers under the heaviest taxation, 44. Account of the Bank of Amsterdam, 56. This republic derives even its subsistence from foreign trade, 76. Tax paid on houses there, 438. Account of the tax upon successions, 453. Stamp duties, 455. High amount of taxes in, 470, 504. Its prosperity depends on the republican form of government, 505.
Honoraries from pupils to teachers in colleges, tendency of, to quicken their diligence, 349.
Hose, in the time of Edward IV., how made, 353.
Hospitality, ancient, the cause and effect of, 508, 506.
House, different acceptations of the term in England, and some other countries, 221. Houses considered as part of the national stock, 376. Houses produce no revenue, ib. The rent of distinguished into two parts, 432. Operation of a tax upon house rent, payable by the tenant, 433. House rent the best test of the tenant’s circumstances, ib. Proper regulation of a tax on, ib. How taxed in Holland, 438. Hearth money, ib. Window tax, 439.
Hudson’s Bay company, the nature of their establishments and trade, 332. Their profits not so high as has been reported, 333.
Hunters, war how supported by a nation of, 279. Cannot be very numerous, 280. No established administration of justice, needful among them, 297. Age the sole foundation of rank and precedency among, 299. No considerable inequality of fortune, or subordination, to be found among them, 300. No hereditary honours in such a society, ib, Husbandmen, war how supported by a nation of, 281. Husbandry. See Agriculture.
Idleness, unfashionable in Holland, 199.
Importation, why restraints have been imposed on, with the two kinds of, 27. How restrained to secure a monopoly of the home market to domestic industry, 29. The true policy of these restraints doubtful, 30. The free importation of foreign manufactures more dangerous than that of raw materials, 35. How far it may be proper to continue the free importation of certain foreign goods, 43. How far it may