 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...those tolls, have in many cases been very justly complained of. At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executingi in the cofiapletest manner, the work, which is often executed in a very -slovenly manner,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 520 pages
...those tolls, have in many cases been very justly complained of. At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completest manner, the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1819 - 518 pages
...those tolls, have, in many cases, been very justly complained of. At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary...slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all. The system of repairing the high roads by tolls of this kind, it must be observed, is not of very longstanding... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 474 pages
...says : " The money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completest manner, the work, which is often executed in a very...slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all." This remark, in too many cases, is just as applicable now, as it was when first made, nearly sixty... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 508 pages
...hands. Dr. Adam Smith bears testimony to the bad management of road trustees in his time. He says : " The money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completest manner, the work, which is often executed u 2 in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not... | |
 | Thomas Grahame - Railroads - 1834 - 234 pages
...level ground." After quoting from Dr. Adam Smith the following passage, on the British road trusts, " The money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completest manner, the work which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1838 - 542 pages
...hands. Dr. Adam Smith bears testimony to the bad management of road trustees in his time. He says : " The money levied is more than double of what is necessary...slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all." This remark, in too many cases, is just as applicable now as it was when first made, sixty years ago.... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...hands. Dr. Adam Smith bears testimony to the bad management of road trustees in his time. He says : " The money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completest manner, the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...those tolls, have in many cases been very justly complained of. At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary...slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all. The system of repairing the high roads by tolls of this kind, it must be observed, is not of very long... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - Ireland - 1847 - 488 pages
...those tolls, have, in many cases, been very justly complained of. At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary...slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all. The system of repairing the high roads by tolls of this kind, it must be observed, is not of very long... | |
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At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completes! manner, the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all. 
