The Wealth of Nations

l’essai sur le luxe,” of which see esp. pp. 44, 45, 209⁠–⁠211. But an English essay of 1731 to the same effect is quoted by Melon, Essai Politique sur le Commerce, chap. xxiii, ed. of 1761, p. 296, and Melon seems to be referred to below, p. 412. Cp. Lectures, p. 210. ↩

Eds. 1⁠–⁠3 read the indicative, “destroys.” ↩

Misprinted “it” in ed. 5. ↩

“Les Dettes d’un État sont des dettes de la main droite à la main gauche, dont le corps ne se trouvera point affaibli, s’il à la quantité d’aliments nécessaires, et s’il sait les distribuer.”

—⁠Melon, Essai politique sur le Commerce, chap. xxiii, ed. of 1761, p. 296

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Ed. 1 reads “most.” ↩

Above, here. ↩

Eds. 1 and 2 read “seems.” ↩

Raynal says “L’évidence autorise seulement à dire que les gouvernements qui pour le malheur des peuples ont adopté le détestable système des emprunts doivent tôt ou tard l’abjurer: et que l’abus qu’ils en ont fait les forcera vraisemblablement à être infidèles.”

—⁠Histoire philosophique, Amsterdam, 1773, tom. iv, p. 274

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Eds. 1 and 2 read “later”; cp. above, here. ↩

This chapter of Roman history is based on a few sentences in Pliny, Historia Naturalis, lib. xxxiii, cap. iii. Modern criticism has discovered the facts to be not nearly so simple as they are represented in the text. ↩

See Du Cange Glossary, voce Moneta; the Benedictine edition.

—⁠Smith

This gives a table of the alterations made in the coin and refers to Le Blanc, Traité historique des Monnoyes de France, 1792, in which the fact that the officers were adjured by their oaths to keep the matter secret is mentioned on p. 218, but the adjuration is also quoted in the more accessible Melon, Essai politique sur le Commerce, chap. xiii, ed. of 1761, p. 177.

—⁠Cannan

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Misprinted “never” in Eds. 2⁠–⁠5. ↩

Ed. 1 reads “either of.” ↩

Ed. 1 reads “or.” ↩

Above, here, here through here. ↩

Above, here. ↩

Above, here. ↩

Eds. 1⁠–⁠3 read “was.” ↩

Given in the Continuation of Anderson’s Commerce, AD 1774, vol. iv, p. 178, in ed. of 1801. ↩

Above, here. ↩

Ed. 1 reads “late”; cp. above, here. ↩

Eds. 1 and 2 read “West Indian.” ↩

Eds. 1⁠–⁠3 read “was” here and five lines below. ↩

Eds. 1⁠–⁠3 read “was.” ↩

Above, here through here. ↩

Ed. 1 omits “the.” ↩

See Hutchinson’s History of Massachusett’s Bay, Vol. II, page 436 & seq.

—⁠Smith

History of the Colony of Massachusets Bay, 2nd ed., 1765⁠–⁠8.

—⁠Cannan

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Ed. 1 reads “of.” ↩

Ed. 1 reads “must generally.” ↩

Ed. 1 reads “paid either.” ↩

See this note. ↩

Ed. 1 reads “gold and silver.” ↩

Eds. 1⁠–⁠3 read “was.” ↩

Above, here. ↩

Above, here through here. ↩

See above, here. ↩

In Additions and Corrections this matter is printed in the text, and consequently the reading here is “confirm what is said above.” ↩

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