 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1851 - 168 pages
...obtain, " not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." It is plain, as well from this definition as from the previous statements, that there neither is nor... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 138 pages
...obtain, " not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." It is plain, as well from this definition as from the previous statements, that there can be no invariable... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1860 - 72 pages
..." not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." Variations jfa specif;c quantity of certain articles were necessary to in iena"'t|)e subsistence of... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1863 - 548 pages
..." not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." But the piece-work labourers have another resource in addition to those now mentioned. If A be hired... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 870 pages
...are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country rondure it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1870 - 376 pages
...obtain ' not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without.' Now it is plain, from this definition, that there neither is nor can be any absolute standard of natural... | |
 | Massachusetts. Dept. of Labor and Industries. Division of Statistics - 1873 - 536 pages
...obtain, ' not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without.' " Now it is plain, from this definition, that there can be no absolute standard of natural or necessary... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is strictly speaking not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | 1881 - 622 pages
...understand not only the commodities which arc indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people even of the lowest class to be without. All other things I call luxuries.' — Adam Smith. 'How ' How often has not the... | |
 | Democracy - 1884 - 208 pages
...Smith, " not only the commodities which are essentially necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people even of the lowest class to be without. All other things I call luxuries." Senior declares that a carriage is a decency... | |
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By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. 
