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...find it for their interest to employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantake over their neighbours, and to purchase with a part...family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy...

...which they have some advantage over J" their neighbours, and to purchase with a part of its pro" duce, or what is the same thing, with the price of a part..." can scarce be folly, in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign " country, can supply us with a commodity, cheaper than we " ourselves can make 'it, better...

...master ofafamily, never to attempt to make at home, what it will cosl htm more to tuake than to buy what is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. * Cette proposition ne s'applique guère moins à la Grande-Bretagne, sous le rapport des produits...

...and to purchase with a part of its produce, or, what is the same thing, with the price of a part pf it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is...family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign couetry can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy...

...foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it can not, it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family,...family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy...

...attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemaker does not attempt to make clothes, but employs a tailor. The farmer attempts...family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy...

...which they have some advantage over their neighbours, and to purchase with a part of its pro. ilnct., or, what is the same thing, with the price of a part...family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy...

...argument opposed to an opinion of Adam Smith's, which is thus expressed in the Wealth of Nations. " It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family,...can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom." The fact stated by Mr. Rae shows that this rule, like most others, is liable to exceptions. Where the parties...