Goods

Examples

• In reality, however, it is the goods which are cheap in the one case, and dear in the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Almost all countries exchange with one another, partly native and partly foreign goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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.
• The whole value of the great wheel of circulation and distribution is added to the goods which are circulated and distributed by means of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The rest must all be sent abroad, and exchanged for consumable goods of some kind or other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His goods, said Mr. Cruncher, after turning it over in his mind, is a branch of Scientific goods. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This proving a failure, he, in 1830, turned his attention to the improvement of rubber goods. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Money, therefore, necessarily runs after goods, but goods do not always or necessarily run after money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But upon the greater part of goods, those duties are equivalent to a prohibition. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He, being a large sutler, wanted to send a message to save his goods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The carrying trade, in all sorts of goods, would, under this system, enjoy every possible advantage. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Their goods cost them less, and they get more for them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This would be the case, even upon the supposition that the whole French goods imported were to be consumed in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Those duties, when applied to such purposes, are most properly imposed according to the bulk or weight of the goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Grocery goods, for example, are generally much cheaper; bread and butchers' meat frequently as cheap. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Their freight is much less, and their insurance not greater; and no goods, besides, are less liable to suffer by the carriage. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The price which he pays must always be the same, whatever may be the quantity of goods which he receives in return for it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But the owner of that stock necessarily wishes to dispose of as great a part of those goods as he can at home. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And though goods do not always draw money so readily as money draws goods, in the long-run they draw it more necessarily than even it draws them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the highest class, I replied,--among those goods which he who would be happy desires both for their own sake and for the sake of their results. Plato. The Republic.
• The duties of excise are imposed chiefly upon goods of home produce, destined for home consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The greater part of goods, besides, are more perishable than money, and he may frequently sustain a much greater loss by keeping them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She presently returned, and said, that Mr. Brownlow had sold off his goods, and gone to the West Indies, six weeks before. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Fleets and armies are maintained, not with gold and silver, but with consumable goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You know, or if you don't, your poor father did, that you are to have my money and goods when I die. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• For many years old and worn out rubber goods were thrown away as worthless. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The cover of the boiler is then closed and fastened by lugs, and steam turned on until the goods in the can are thoroughly heated through. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But it could not supply them with the whole; and the goods with which it did supply them were necessarily sold very dear. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They continued for a time his disciplines of the complete subjugation of self; they had their goods in common, they had no bond but love. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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