Necessaries

Examples

• If you would engage a front room and purchase the necessaries for the night, I may have time to make a few inquiries. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Sam put a few necessaries in a carpet-bag, and was ready for starting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Taxes upon the necessaries of life are much higher in many other countries than in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A peasant would think himself happy in what cannot afford necessaries for a gentleman. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He leaves me alone and without sufficient money for common necessaries. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Whether taxes upon the necessaries of life, such as those in Great Britain upon soap, salt, leather, candles, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Consumable commodities, whether necessaries or luxuries, may be taxed in two different ways. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was not however money, except partially, but the necessaries of life, that became scarce. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Consumable commodities are either necessaries or luxuries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Of all my worldly possessions I took no more than the few necessaries that filled the bag. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town, or in a famine. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Secondly, Taxes upon the necessaries of life have nearly the same effect upon the circumstances of the people as a poor soil and a bad climate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He accoutred me with other necessaries, all new, which I aired for twenty-four hours before I would use them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Among those commodities would be comprehended all the necessaries of life, and all the materials of manufacture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The jury brought it in, Died from exposure to the cold, and want of the common necessaries of life, didn't they? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• That of the necessaries of life is altogether independent of the quantity of money which can be had for them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Remember what Poor Richard says: _Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• On that day week, amply provided with all necessaries, I left it, inside the stagecoach, for Reading. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A guinea may be considered as a bill for a certain quantity of necessaries and conveniencies upon all the tradesmen in the neighbourhood. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is thus that a tax upon the necessaries of life operates exactly in the same manner as a direct tax upon the wages of labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These things can not be called the necessaries of life, for our ancestors lived very comfortably without them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The taxes upon the necessaries of life are inconsiderable in Great Britain, and no manufacture has hitherto been ruined by them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Merchants and traders in unarmed ships, who accommodate different nations by communicating and exchanging the necessaries and conveniences of life. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Well provided with cigars and other necessaries of life, we are now ready to take the cars for Milan. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We sell our victuals to the Islands for rum and sugar; the substantial necessaries of life for superfluities. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Meg went to the other window, and sewed as if new rosettes for slippers were among the necessaries of life. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Could all these people, now employed in raising, making, or carrying superfluities, be subsisted by raising necessaries? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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