 By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a...  The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart - Seite 27von Dugald Stewart - 1856Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...there must be an absurdity, though not altogether eo glaring, yet exactly of the same kind, in turning towards any such employment a thirtieth, or even... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1856 - 588 Seiten
...about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making evidence in the general success of their undertakings, and the prosperity of the settlement of which... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 576 Seiten
...about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making evidence in the general success of their undertakings, and the prosperity of the settlement of which... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 586 Seiten
...about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making evidence in the general success of their undertakings, and the prosperity of the settlement of which... | |
 | 1860 - 788 Seiten
...about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be bought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...there must be an absurdity, though not altogether so glaring, yet exactly of the same kind, in turning towards any such employment a thirtieth or even... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 Seiten
...about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...there must be an absurdity, though not altogether so glaring, yet exactly of the same kind, in turning towards any such employment a thirtieth, or even... | |
 | William Dillon - 1882 - 278 Seiten
...consideration of natural advantages is strong enough to outweigh all others. Thus, when Adam Smith asks — " Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland ?"* — the answer is obvious enough. But a very little consideration will show how far it is from... | |
 | H. W. Furber - 1884 - 554 Seiten
...about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...there must be an absurdity, though not altogether so glaring, yet exactly of the same kind, in turning toward any such employment a thirtieth, or even... | |
 | H. W. Furber - 1884 - 540 Seiten
...about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation...the capital and industry of the country than would bo necessary to purchase from foreign countries an equal quantity of the commodities wanted, there... | |
 | William Watt (of Aberdeen.) - 1885 - 198 Seiten
...either the grapes or the wine can be brought from foreign countries ; and what should we think of a law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines...encourage the making of claret and Burgundy in Scotland ? In this illustration the principle of Protection is set forth in clear and bold relief; and the principle... | |
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