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The price of labour, it must be observed, cannot be ascertained

very accurately anywhere, different prices being often paid at

the same place and for the same sort of labour, not only

according to the different abilities of the workman, but

according to the easiness or hardness of the masters. Where wages

are not regulated by law, all that we can pretend to determine

is, what are the most usual; and experience seems to shew that

law can never regulate them properly, though it has often

pretended to do so.