certainly-easier

Updated: May 16, 2025

It is certainly-easier for the consumer to pay five shillings a-year for every hundred ounces of plate, near one per cent. of the value, than to redeem this long annuity at five-and-twenty or thirty years purchase, which would enhance the price at least five-and-twenty or thirty per cent.

Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations