Capitals

Examples

• The East came to the Western capitals with perplexing demands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The greater part, both of the exportation and coasting trade of America, is carried on by the capitals of merchants who reside in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They met the French President, the Kaiser, the King of England, and the King of Spain, and they were dined and publicly honored in all the great capitals. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Foreign capitals are every day intruding themselves, if I may say so, more and more into the trade of Cadiz and Lisbon. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Its possible extent, therefore, is in a manner infinite in comparison of that of the other two, and is capable of absorbing the greatest capitals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating capitals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Sirmium (on the River Save), Milan, Lyons, and Nicomedia (in Bithynia) were among such supplementary capitals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When the capitals are equal, and equally well applied, it is in proportion to their natural fertility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As no ladders could reach the great heights, the men swung themselves down from balustrades and the capitals of pilasters by ropes, to do this work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the opulent countries of Europe, great capitals are at present employed in trade and manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The six columns are their bases, Corinthian capitals and entablature--and six more shapely columns do not exist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In a rude state of society, there are no great mercantile or manufacturing capitals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But, by lessening the competition of capitals in that branch of trade, it necessarily raised the rate of profit in that branch. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The fact is, he owed more money at London than at Paris; and he preferred the quiet little Belgian city to either of the more noisy capitals. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As capitals increase in any country, the profits which can be made by employing them necessarily diminish. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thirdly, some part of the profits of stock belongs to the same rank, as a revenue arising from the employment of their small capitals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The meanest streets are strewed with truncated columns, broken capitals--Corinthian and Ionic, and sparkling fragments of granite or porphyry. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is a tax which very few people could pay, without encroaching more or less upon their capitals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called fixed capitals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The persons whose capitals are employed in any of those four ways, are themselves productive labourers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Different occupations require very different proportions between the fixed and circulating capitals employed in them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The limited stock of the Dutch East India company probably repels from that trade many great mercantile capitals which would otherwise go to it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Others were parts of kingdoms, or even the capitals of dukes or kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Labourers easily find employment; but the owners of capitals find it difficult to get labourers to employ. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Land even replaces, in part at least, the capitals with which fisheries and mines are cultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• War would not necessarily have occasioned the destruction of any old capitals, and peace would have occasioned the accumulation of many more new. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They would be enabled to keep their whole capitals, and even more than their whole capitals constantly employed in cultivation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The capitals employed in the agriculture and in the retail trade of any society, must always reside within that society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Our debts have been paid off, our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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