The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith. Account of the life and writings of William Robertson. Account of the life and writings of Thomas Reid. Tracts respecting the election of Mr. Leslie to the professorship of mathematics in the university of EdinburghHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... give to the public ; but this in- tention , which is mentioned in the conclusion of the Theory of Moral Sentiments , he did not live to fulfil . " In the last part of his lectures , he examined those political regulations which are ...
... give to the public ; but this in- tention , which is mentioned in the conclusion of the Theory of Moral Sentiments , he did not live to fulfil . " In the last part of his lectures , he examined those political regulations which are ...
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... give a short abstract . To those who are familiarly acquainted with it as it is stated by its author , I am aware ... gives the name of propriety ; and he begins his theory with inquiring in what it consists , and how we are led to form ...
... give a short abstract . To those who are familiarly acquainted with it as it is stated by its author , I am aware ... gives the name of propriety ; and he begins his theory with inquiring in what it consists , and how we are led to form ...
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... give at any time to the circumstances of our neighbour , must affect us somewhat in the same manner , although by no ... gives the name of sympathy or fellow - feeling , which two words he employs as synon- ymous . Upon some occasions ...
... give at any time to the circumstances of our neighbour , must affect us somewhat in the same manner , although by no ... gives the name of sympathy or fellow - feeling , which two words he employs as synon- ymous . Upon some occasions ...
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... gives him an easy empire over the affections of others . Having finished the analysis of our sense of propriety and of impropriety , Mr. Smith proceeds to consider our sense of merit and demerit ; which he thinks has also a reference ...
... gives him an easy empire over the affections of others . Having finished the analysis of our sense of propriety and of impropriety , Mr. Smith proceeds to consider our sense of merit and demerit ; which he thinks has also a reference ...
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... gives of it is not warped in the least by any peculiarity in his own scheme ; and , I must own , it ap- pears to me to be the most solid and valuable improve- ment he has made in this branch of science . It is im- possible to give any ...
... gives of it is not warped in the least by any peculiarity in his own scheme ; and , I must own , it ap- pears to me to be the most solid and valuable improve- ment he has made in this branch of science . It is im- possible to give any ...
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الصفحة 16 - When we see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
الصفحة 64 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice ; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
الصفحة 51 - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
الصفحة 164 - God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the word : and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God and government of the church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature, and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the word, which are always to be observed.
الصفحة 60 - When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish • the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear.
الصفحة 37 - Townsend, who passes for the cleverest fellow in England, is so taken with the performance, that he said to Oswald he would put the Duke of Buccleugh under the author's care, and would make it worth his while to accept of that charge.
الصفحة 57 - It is thus that every system which endeavours, either, by extraordinary encouragements, to draw towards a particular species of industry a greater share of the capital of the society than what would naturally go to it; or, by extraordinary restraints, to force from a particular species of industry some share of the capital which would otherwise be employed in it, is in reality subversive of the great purpose which it means to promote.
الصفحة 36 - I shall inform you of a few that have come to my knowledge. I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book de 1'Esprit. It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy, which I do not highly value, but for its agreeable composition.
الصفحة 252 - And something previous even to taste - 'tis sense: Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no science, fairly worth the seven: A light, which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
الصفحة 59 - ... disorders which it is often difficult to remedy, without occasioning, for a time at least, still greater disorders. In what manner, therefore, the colony trade ought gradually to be opened ; what...