 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pàgines
...reduced the revenue of the customs below what more moderate duties would have afforded. The saying of Dr. Swift, that in the arithmetic of the customs two and two, instead of making four, make sometimes only one, holds perfectly true with regard to such heavy duties,... | |
 | David Hume - 1889 - 530 pàgines
...commodities, which can easily be intercepted at the port, and subjected to the impost. We ought, however, always to remember the maxim of Dr. SWIFT, That, in...two and two make not four, but often make only one. It can scarcely be doubted, but if the duties on wine were lowered to a third, they would yield much... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - 1906 - 700 pàgines
...reduced the revenue of the customs below what more moderate duties would have afforded. The saying of Dr. Swift, that, in the arithmetic of the customs, two and two, instead of making four, make sometimes only one, holds perfectly true with regard to such heavy duties,... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - 1906 - 698 pàgines
...reduced the revenue of the customs below what more moderate duties would have afforded. The saying of Dr. Swift, that, in the arithmetic of the customs, two and two, instead of making four, make sometimes only one, holds perfectly true with regard to such heavy duties,... | |
 | Arthur Eli Monroe - 1924 - 416 pàgines
...commodities, which can easily be intercepted at the port, and subjected to the impost. We ought, however, always to remember the maxim of Dr. SWIFT, That, in...two and two make not four, but often make only one. It can scarcely be doubted, but if the duties on wine were lowered to a third, they would yield much... | |
 | Antoin E. Murphy, Chūhei Sugiyama - 1997 - 366 pàgines
...commodities, which can easily be intercepted at the port, and subjected to the impost. We ought, however, always to remember the maxim of Dr. Swift, that, in...two and two make not four, but often make only one. It can scarcely be doubted, but if the duties on wine were lower'd to a third, they wou'd yield much... | |
 | David Hume - 2003 - 376 pàgines
...the port, and subjected to the impost. We ought, however, always to remember the maxim of Dr. SWIET, That, in the arithmetic of the customs, two and two make not four, but often make only one.21 It can scarcely be doubted, but if the duties on wine were lowered to a third, they would yield... | |
 | David Hume - 2006 - 629 pàgines
...intercepted at the port, and subjected to the impost. We ought, however, always to remember the inaxim of Dr. Swift, that, in the arithmetic of the customs,,...two and two make not four, but often make only one. It can scarcely be doubted, but if the duties on wine were lowered to a third, they would yield mack... | |
 | David Hume - 356 pàgines
...commodities, which can easily be intercepted at the port, and subjected to the impost. We ought, however, always to remember the maxim of Dr. SWIFT, That, in...two and two make not four, but often make only one. It can scarcely be doubted, but if the duties on wine were lowered to a third, they would yield much... | |
 | David Hume - 2007 - 630 pàgines
...and subjected to the impost. We ought, however, always to remember the maxim of Dr. Swift, that, m the arithmetic of the customs, two and two make not four, but often make only one. It can scarcely be doubted, but if the daties on wine were lowered to a third, they would yield much... | |
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... intercepted at the port, and subjected to the impost. We ought, however, always to remember the maxim of Dr. Swift, that, in the arithmetic of the customs, two and two make not four, but often make only one. 
