 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 Seiten
...which, instead of gaining credit with any body, serve only to expose the person who affects to practise them, to the suspicion of being a greater knave than...some measure innocent ; and when, the severity of the re* venue laws is ready to fall upon him, he is frequently disposed .to defend with violence, what... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1822 - 540 Seiten
...which, instead of gaining credit with any body, serve only to expose the person who affects to practise them, to the suspicion of being a greater knave than...continue a trade which [he is thus taught to consider in some measure innocent ; and when the severity of the revenue laws is ready to fall upon him, he... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 Seiten
...instead of gaining credit with anybody, serve only to expose the person who affects to practise them io the suspicion of being a greater knave than most of...taught to consider as in some measure innocent ; and «hen the seventy of the re•'enue laws is ready to fall upon him, he is frequently disposed to defend... | |
 | Jonathan Duncan - 1841 - 680 Seiten
...mentioned was not the heinous slave trade. serve only to expose the person who affects to practise them , to the suspicion of being a greater knave than most of his neighbours." And it has been well observed by a writer in the Edinburgh Review, vol. xxxvi. p. 536, that — " To... | |
 | James O'Dowd - 1851 - 230 Seiten
...instead of gaining credit with anybody, serves only to expose the person who affects to practice it, to the suspicion of being a greater knave than most...the severity of the revenue laws is ready to fall on him, he is frequently dis* Adam Smith,—" Wealth of Nations," Boo* 5. M posed to defend with violence,... | |
 | Great Britain, Felix John Hamel - 1854 - 628 Seiten
...instead of gaining credit with any body, serves only to expose the person who alfeets to practise it to the suspicion of being a greater knave than most...often encouraged to continue a trade which he is thus induced to consider as in some measure innocent. — Smith's Wialih of' Nations. not however, prone... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1862 - 746 Seiten
...which, instead of gaining credit with anybody, serve only to expose the person who affects to practise them, to the suspicion of being a greater knave than most of his neighbors. By this indulgence of the public, the smuggler is often encouraged to continue a trade which... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1863 - 548 Seiten
...which, instead of gaining credit with anybody, serve only to expose the person who affects to practise them to the suspicion of being a greater knave than...when the severity of the revenue laws is ready to fail upon him, he is frequently disposed to defend with violence what he has been accustomed to regard... | |
 | 1875 - 632 Seiten
...moralist did not fail to point out the evils that result from this low tone of public sentiment : — " By this indulgence of the public, the smuggler is...continue a trade which he is thus taught to consider in some measure innocent; and when the severity of the revenue laws is ready to fall upon him, he is... | |
 | 1875 - 644 Seiten
...instead of gaining credit with anybody, seems only to expose the person who affects to practise it to the suspicion of being a greater knave than most of his neighbours." Hard words these ; yet there is sufficient ground for them. The astute economist and moralist did not... | |
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... the violation of the revenue laws, and to the perjury which almost always attends it, would, in most countries, be regarded as one of those pedantic pieces of hypocrisy which, instead of gaining credit with any body, serve only to expose the person... 
