The Wealth of Nations_ Books 4-5 - Adam Smith [372]
1. See Memoires concernant les Droits et Impositions en Europe, tome i.
1. See Sketches of the History of Man, page 474, et seq.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, pp. 240, 241.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, etc., tome i. pp. 114, 115, 116, etc.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, etc., tome i. pp. 83, 84.
2. Ibid. p. 280, etc., also p. 287, etc., to 316.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, etc., tome ii. pp. 139, 145–7, etc.
1. Since the first publication of this book, a tax nearly upon the above-mentioned principles has been imposed.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, etc., tome i. p. 223.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, tome i. p. 74.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, tome i. pp. 163, 166, 171.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, etc., tome ii. p. 17.
1. Lib. 55. See also Burman, De Vectigalibus Pop. Rom. cap. xi. and Bouchaud, De l’impoôt du vingtieème sur les successions.
2. Memoires concernant les Droits, etc., tome i. p. 225.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, etc., tome i. p. 154.
2. Ibid. p. 157.
1 Ibid. p. 157.
1. Memories concernant les Droits, etc., tome. ii. p. 108.
2. Ibid. tome. iii. p. 87.
1. See book i. chap. 8.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, etc., pp. 210, 211.
2. Le Reformateur.
1. Though the duties directly imposed upon proof spirits amount only to 2s. 6d. per gallon, these added to the duties upon the low wines, from which they are distilled, amount to 3s. 10–23d. Both low wines and proof spirits are, to prevent frauds, now rated according to what they gauge in the wash.
1. The net produce of that year, after deducting all expenses and allowances, amounted to £4,975,652 19 s. 6d.
1. Memoires concernant les Droits, etc., tome. i. p. 455.
1. See Examen des Reflexions Politiques sur les Finances.
1. See James Postlethwayt History of the Public Revenue.
1. It has proved more expensive than any of our former wars; and has involved us in an additional debt of more than one hundred millions. During a profound peace of eleven years, little more than ten millions of debt was paid; during a war of seven years, more than one hundred millions was contracted.
1. See Du Cange Glossary, voce ‘Moneta;’ the Benedictine edition.
1. See Hutchinson’s History of Massachusett’s Bay, vol. ii. page 436, et seq.
Table of Contents
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
The Wealth Of Nations Books IV–V
CONTENTS
BOOK IV
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
BOOK V
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
APPENDIX
INDEX
Footnotes
CHAPTER III
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CHAPTER V
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CHAPTER VI
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CHAPTER VII
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CHAPTER IX
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CHAPTER I
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CHAPTER II
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CHAPTER III
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