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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... wishes of his friends ; and abandoning at once all the schemes which their prudence had formed for him , he resolved to return to his own country , and to limit his ambition to the uncertain prospect of obtaining , in time , some one of ...
... wishes of his friends ; and abandoning at once all the schemes which their prudence had formed for him , he resolved to return to his own country , and to limit his ambition to the uncertain prospect of obtaining , in time , some one of ...
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... wish , therefore , to secure their sympathy and approbation , ( which , according to Mr. Smith , are the objects of the strongest desire of my nature , ) it is necessary for me to regard my happiness , not in that light in which it ...
... wish , therefore , to secure their sympathy and approbation , ( which , according to Mr. Smith , are the objects of the strongest desire of my nature , ) it is necessary for me to regard my happiness , not in that light in which it ...
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... wish , that whoever is my successor may not only do credit to the office by his abilities , but be a comfort to the very excellent men with whom he is likely to spend his life , by the probity of his heart and the goodness of his temper ...
... wish , that whoever is my successor may not only do credit to the office by his abilities , but be a comfort to the very excellent men with whom he is likely to spend his life , by the probity of his heart and the goodness of his temper ...
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... wish- ed , that no materials should remain for his biographers , but what were furnished by the lasting monuments of his genius , and the exemplary worth of his private life . The satisfaction he enjoyed in the conversation of Turgot ...
... wish- ed , that no materials should remain for his biographers , but what were furnished by the lasting monuments of his genius , and the exemplary worth of his private life . The satisfaction he enjoyed in the conversation of Turgot ...
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... wish we could concert measures for that purpose . mortally sick at sea , and regard with horror and a kind of hydrophobia the great gulph that lies between us . I am also tired of travelling , as much as you ought natu- rally to be of ...
... wish we could concert measures for that purpose . mortally sick at sea , and regard with horror and a kind of hydrophobia the great gulph that lies between us . I am also tired of travelling , as much as you ought natu- rally to be of ...
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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...