“ A single man, indeed who is healthy and industrious, may sometimes reside by sufferance without one ”
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776). copy citation
| Author | Adam Smith |
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| Source | The Wealth of Nations |
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| Date | 1776 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm |
Context
“The very unequal price of labour which we frequently find in England, in places at no great distance from one another, is probably owing to the obstruction which the law of settlements gives to a poor man who would carry his industry from one parish to another without a certificate. A single man, indeed who is healthy and industrious, may sometimes reside by sufferance without one; but a man with a wife and family who should attempt to do so, would, in most parishes, be sure of being removed; and, if the single man should afterwards marry, he would generally be removed likewise.”
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