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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... ideas of different ages and nations . How intimately he had once been conversant with the more ornamental branches of learning ; in par- ticular , with the works of the Roman , Greek , French , and Italian poets , appeared sufficiently ...
... ideas of different ages and nations . How intimately he had once been conversant with the more ornamental branches of learning ; in par- ticular , with the works of the Roman , Greek , French , and Italian poets , appeared sufficiently ...
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... idea . The various significations of the word but are very nicely and happily discriminat- ed . The other article does not seem to have been ex- ecuted with equal care . The observations on the state of learning in Europe are written ...
... idea . The various significations of the word but are very nicely and happily discriminat- ed . The other article does not seem to have been ex- ecuted with equal care . The observations on the state of learning in Europe are written ...
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... ideas ; that of the other , to refer the phenomena of moral perception to their most simple and general laws . The practical doctrines of morality comprehend all those rules of conduct which profess to point out the proper ends of human ...
... ideas ; that of the other , to refer the phenomena of moral perception to their most simple and general laws . The practical doctrines of morality comprehend all those rules of conduct which profess to point out the proper ends of human ...
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... idea of it . The leading principles of his doc- trine on this subject are comprehended in the following propositions : 1. It is from our own experience alone , that we can form any idea of what passes in the mind of another person on ...
... idea of it . The leading principles of his doc- trine on this subject are comprehended in the following propositions : 1. It is from our own experience alone , that we can form any idea of what passes in the mind of another person on ...
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... idea of virtue , he thinks , al- ways implies the idea of propriety , or of the suitable- ness of the affection to the object which excites it ; which suitableness , according to him , can be determin- ed in no other way than by the ...
... idea of virtue , he thinks , al- ways implies the idea of propriety , or of the suitable- ness of the affection to the object which excites it ; which suitableness , according to him , can be determin- ed in no other way than by the ...
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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...