Trades

Examples

• Part of what had before been employed in other trades, is necessarily withdrawn from them, and turned into some of the new and more profitable ones. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If it affords at any time much less than this, other trades will soon draw so much capital from it as will again raise that profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Does she stand better with her trades-people than I do with mine? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I've been a sheep-farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world, said he; many a thousand mile of stormy water off from this. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They were prepared to tolerate his rule if they themselves might also be monarchs of their lands and businesses and trades and what not. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Two trades of the utmost brilliance. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In the greatest part of mechanic trades success is almost certain; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Bankruptcies are most frequent in the most hazardous trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Hours, minutes and seconds began to be carefully prized, both by the trades and professions, and the demand from the common people for accurate time records became great. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When he had seen as much of the world as he wished, he went to the town of Saintes, married, and settled there as a man of several trades. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• So if your life trades its seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Where all other circumstances are equal, wages are generally higher in new than in old trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The farmer, compared with the proprietor, is as a merchant who trades with burrowed money, compared with one who trades with his own. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When the two trades can be carried on in the same workhouse, the loss of time is, no doubt, much less. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the four trades above mentioned, both those circumstances concur. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the common mechanic trades, those of a few days might certainly be sufficient. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In trades which are known to be very unwholesome, the wages of labour are always remarkably high. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They earn but a very scanty subsistence, who endeavour to get their livelihood by either of those trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Part icular attention was paid to the trades, the mechanic arts, and the fostering of inventions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is upon this account that, in many large incorporated towns, no tolerable workmen are to be found, even in some of the most necessary trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The trades which employ but a small number of hands, run most easily into such combinations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There are few trades which cannot be carried on with a smaller stock in Scotland than in England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Jack-of-all-trades will never be rich, says the proverb. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In all those old trades, therefore, the competition comes to be Jess than before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Some parts of it imported into England, might have interfered with some of the trades which they themselves carried on at home. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The trade of a butcher is a brutal and an odious business; but it is in most places more profitable than the greater part of common trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The separation of different trades and employments from one another, seems to have taken place in consequence of this advantage. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Employment is much more constant in some trades than in others. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• First, This monopoly has been continually drawing capital from all other trades, to be employed in that of the colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When the trade or practice becomes thoroughly established and well known, the competition reduces them to the level of other trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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