 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...the partners in a private copartnery fre. quently watch over their own. Like the stewards pf a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to " small...foreign trade have seldom been able to maintain the competition against private adventurers. They have, accordingly, very seldom succeeded without an exclusive... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 520 pages
...which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters...for foreign trade have seldom been able to maintain the'competition against private adventurers. They have, accordingly, very seldom succeeded without... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1822 - 540 pages
...which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters...affairs of such a company. It is upon this account that joint stock companies for foreign trade have seldom been able to maintain the competition against private... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters MS not for their master's honour, and very easily give...dispensation from having it. Negligence and profusion, theretore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the aHairs of such a company. It... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters...affairs of such a company. It is upon this account that joint stock companies for foreign trade have seldom been able to maintain the competition against private... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Commerce - 1852 - 790 pages
...motives to act with energy, prudence, and economy. " Like," says Dr. Smith, " the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters...or less in the management of the affairs of such a compjny." It also not unfrequently happens that they sutler from the bad faith, as well as the carelessness... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...which the partners in private copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters...affairs of such a company. It is upon this account that joint stock companies for foreign trade have seldom been able to maintain the competition against private... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1884 - 604 pages
...•s not for their master's honour, and very eaiily give themselves a dispensation from having ¡L Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail,...affairs of such a company. It is upon this account, that joint*tock companies for foreign trade have seldom been able to maintain the competition against private... | |
 | Arnold Toynbee - Economics - 1884 - 304 pages
...the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. . . . Negligence and profusion must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company." 2 This is an instance of pure a priori reasoning, but Smith's main argument is derived from the history... | |
 | Arnold Toynbee - Economics - 1887 - 314 pages
...the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. . . . Negligence and profusion must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company." 2 This is an instance of pure a priori reasoning, but Smith's main argument is derived from the history... | |
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... being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. 
