The Wealth of Nations_ Books 4-5 - Adam Smith [364]
81. Why government ought not to take the management of turnpikes, to derive a revenue from them, 315. Public works of a local nature, always better maintained by provincial revenues, than by the general revenue of the state, 319. The abuses in provincial revenues trifling, when compared with those in the revenue of a great empire, ib. The greater the revenue of the church, the smaller must be that of the state, 402. The revenue of the state ought to be raised pro-portionably from the whole society,
404. Local expenses ought to be defrayed by local revenue, 405. Inquiry into the sources of public revenue, 406. Of the republic of Hamburgh, 407. Whether the government of Britain could undertake the management of the Bank to derive a revenue from it, 408. The Post-office a mercantile project well calculated for being managed by government, ib. Princes not well qualified to improve their fortunes by trade, ib. The English East India Company good traders before they became sovereigns, but each character now spoils the other, 409. Expedient of the government of Pennsylvania to raise money, 410. Rent of land, the most permanent fund, 411. Feudal revenues, ib. Great Britain, 412. Revenue from land proportioned, not to the rent, but to the produce, 413. Reasons for selling the crown lands, 414. An improved land-tax suggested, 421. The nature and effect of tythes explained, 428 – 9. Why a revenue cannot be raised in kind, ib. When raised in money, how affected by different modes of valuation, ib. A proportionable tax on houses, the best source of revenue, 434. Remedies for the diminution of, according to their causes,
479. Bad effects of farming out public revenues, 501. The different sources of revenue in France, 502. How expended, in the rude state of society, 506.
Rice, a very productive article of cultivation, 263. Requires a soil unfit for raising any other kind of food, 264. Rice countries more populous than corn countries, 310.
Riches, the chief enjoyment of, consists in the parade of, 277.
Risk, instances of the inattention man -kind pay to it, 210.
Roads, good, the public advantages of, 251. How to be made and maintained, 311. The maintenance of, why improper to be trusted to private interest, 316 – 17. General state of, in France, ib. In China, ib.
Romans, why copper became the standard of value among them, 142. The extravagant prices paid by them for certain luxuries for the table, accounted for, 323. The value of silver higher among them than at the present time, ib. The republic of, founded on a division of land among the citizens, 136. The agrarian law only executed upon one or two occasions, 137. How the citizens who had no land, subsisted, ib. Distinction between the Roman and Greek colonies, 138. The improvement of the former slower than that of the latter, 147. Origin of the social war, 205 – 6. The republic ruined by extending the privilege of Roman citizens to the greater part of the inhabitants of Italy, 207. When contributions were first raised to maintain those who went to the wars, 282. Soldiers not a distinct procession there, ib. Improvement of the Roman armies by discipline, 291. How that discipline was lost, 292. The fall of the Western empire, how effected, ib. Remarks on the education of the ancient Romans, 362. Their morals superior to those of the Greeks, 363. State of law and forms of justice, 365. The martial spirit of the people, how supported, 372. Great reductions of the coin practised by, at particular exigencies, 532.
Rome, modern, how the zeal of the inferior clergy of, is kept alive, 376–7. The clergy of, one great spiritual army dispersed in different quarters over Europe, 389. Their power during the feudal monkish ages similar to that of the temporal barons, ib. Their power how reduced, 392.
Rouen, why a town of great trade, 435.
Ruddiman, Mr, remarks on his account of the ancient price of wheat in Scotland,