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of other European nations was compiled from such informations as the French ministers at the different courts could procure. It is much shorter, and probably not quite so exact as that of the French taxes.

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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Page 77

CHAPTER V

Page 97

Page 116

CHAPTER VI

Page 131

CHAPTER VII

Page 154

Page 225

CHAPTER IX

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CHAPTER I

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CHAPTER II

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CHAPTER III

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