 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 pages
...the public interest, as in their having a better knowledge of their own interest than he has of his. It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest...conviction, that their interest, and not his, was the iaterest of the public. The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 520 pages
...but honeft conviction, that their intereft, and not his, was the intereft of the public. The intereft of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in fdme refpects different from, and even oppofite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 582 pages
...but honeft conviction, that their intereft, and not his, was the intereft of the public. The intereft of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in fome reIpecls different from, and even oppofite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1853 - 1072 pages
...the public interest, as in their baring a better knowledge of their own interest than he has of his. It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest...interest, and not his, was the interest of the public." He believed that in those words of Adam Smith was to be found the true solution of the success, so... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1835 - 494 pages
...the public interest, as in their having a better knowledge of their own interest than he has of his. It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest...interest of the public. The interest of the dealers, * This looks like a mere slip of the pen. " Going to ruin" signifies the progressive waste of capital,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...public interest, as in their having a better knowledge of their own interest than lie has of Ыч. It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest...his generosity, and persuaded him to give up both hi« own intereit and that of the public, frorr > very simple but honest conviction, that their interest,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1849 - 700 pages
...superior knowledge of their own, that 781 783 Wai/s and {COMMONS} Means. they have frequently imposed on his generosity, and persuaded him to give up both...interest and that of the public, from a very simple and honest conviction that their interest, and not his, was the interest of the public." He was astonished... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...the public interest, as in their having a better knowledge of their own interest than he has of his. It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest...his own interest and that of the public, from a very iitnple but honest conviction, that their interest, and not his, was the interest of the public. The... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1880 - 486 pages
...the public interest, as in their having a better knowledge of their own interest than he has of his. It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest...dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade OF manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 pages
...Itoth hi» own interest and that of the public, fron- l i 06 CHAP. XI. RENT OF LAND. ter/ simple bul honest conviction, that their interest, and not his,...in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, ¡s always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the... | |
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Their superiority over the country gentleman is, not so much in their knowledge of the public interest, as in their having a better knowledge of their own interest than he has of his. It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest that they have... 
