 | Nassau William Senior - Economics - 1854 - 256 pages
...high. Adam Smith, indeed, thinks that his annual wages ought to he higher than the average, to make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. But this evil is compensated, and, in most dispositions, more than compensated, by the diminution of... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Labor - 1854 - 138 pages
...the time they are necessarily idle. And they ought also to afford them, as Dr. Smith has remarked, some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. This principle shows the fallacy of the opinion so generally entertained respecting the great earnings... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Business & Economics - 1856 - 588 pages
...he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." It is easy to see that the person who can be employed only a part of the time ought to receive higher... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 586 pages
...he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." It is easy to see that the person who can be employed only a part of the time ought to receive higher... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 576 pages
...he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." It is easy to see that the person who can be employed only a part of the time ought to receive higher... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - Economics - 1864 - 106 pages
...he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. When the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level... | |
 | Erasmus Peshine Smith - Economics - 1868 - 274 pages
...while he is employed must not only maintain him while he is idle, but, Dr. Smith suggests, "make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." A year is the least period that includes the vicissitudes of the seasons, and of the varying wants... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1870 - 586 pages
...he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. It is easy to see that the person who can be employed only a P^' of the time ouykt to receive higher... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1870 - 512 pages
...he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." It is easy to see that the person who can be employed only a part of the time ought to receive higher... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - Interest - 1870 - 376 pages
...the time they are necessarily idle; and they ought also to afford them, as Adam Smith has remarked, some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. This principle shows the fallacy of the opinion so generally entertained respecting the great earnings... | |
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He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding" moments which the thought of so precarious... 
