Advantageous

Examples

• Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Agriculture is the proper business of all new colonies; a business which the cheapness of land renders more advantageous than any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But an advantageous connection, such as can be formed in consonance with dignity of views and permanency of solid interests, is not so bad--eh? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They are advantageous even to that part of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A form of breech-loading cannon was introduced in the sixteenth century, but the advantageous use of this device is of late invention. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But in future wars--if such there are to be--it may point to a future of advantageous trade. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Advantageous as would be the alliance, and long standing and public as was the engagement, her happiness must not be sacrificed to it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Every man's interest would prompt him to seek the advantageous, and to shun the disadvantageous employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And it would, I think, be beneficial to you: it would be an advantageous way of managing the land which I mean to be yours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And the good is advantageous? Plato. The Republic.
• A direct foreign trade of consumption is always more advantageous than a round-about one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But whether it was advantageous to plant a new vineyard, was a matter of dispute among the ancient Italian husbandmen, as we learn from Columella. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The wealth of neighbouring nations, however, though dangerous in war and politics, is certainly advantageous in trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In a different state of things it might have been advantageous to the sovereign and hurtful to the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• McClernand's position was an advantageous one in any event. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We commonly consider ourselves as we appear in the eyes of others, and sympathize with the advantageous sentiments they entertain with regard to us. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Its ultimate object, however, it pretends, is always the same, to enrich the country by an advantageous balance of trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Socrates proceeds: I have now to prove that this scheme is advantageous and also consistent with our entire polity. Plato. The Republic.
• I for my part deem the life of the just to be the more advantageous, he answered. Plato. The Republic.
• It is by this additional force, ability, and security, that society becomes advantageous. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Carbon for commutator brushes has been superseded by graphite in some cases, the latter material being found much more advantageous, electrically. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In England, and in all Roman catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In its own nature it is just as advantageous as any other, though, perhaps, somewhat more liable to be abused. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They are advantageous to the town by breaking down the monopoly of the country in its neighbourhood. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I know you have refused three--nay, four--advantageous offers, and, I believe, a fifth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Both these circumstances are advantageous. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mrs. Pryor there sometimes talks of leaving me, and says I might make a more advantageous connection than herself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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