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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... afforded scope to all the various powers of his versatile and comprehen- sive genius , gratified his ruling passion , of contributing to the happiness and the improvement of society . To this study , diversified at his leisure hours by ...
... afforded scope to all the various powers of his versatile and comprehen- sive genius , gratified his ruling passion , of contributing to the happiness and the improvement of society . To this study , diversified at his leisure hours by ...
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... afforded , in the mean time , but a very narrow scene for his ambition , it was probably instrumental , in no inconsiderable degree , to the future eminence of his literary character . Of Mr. Smith's lectures while a Professor at Glas ...
... afforded , in the mean time , but a very narrow scene for his ambition , it was probably instrumental , in no inconsiderable degree , to the future eminence of his literary character . Of Mr. Smith's lectures while a Professor at Glas ...
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... affording no explanation of the approbation we bestow on the inferior virtues ; and those of others accounting as imperfectly for the peculiar excellency which the supreme virtue of beneficence is acknowledged to possess . Such are the ...
... affording no explanation of the approbation we bestow on the inferior virtues ; and those of others accounting as imperfectly for the peculiar excellency which the supreme virtue of beneficence is acknowledged to possess . Such are the ...
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... afforded him an opportu- nity of deriving what commercial information he stood . in need of , from the best sources ; and it is a circum- stance no less honorable to their liberality than to his talents , that notwithstanding the ...
... afforded him an opportu- nity of deriving what commercial information he stood . in need of , from the best sources ; and it is a circum- stance no less honorable to their liberality than to his talents , that notwithstanding the ...
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... afforded to him as a student of human nature , they were probably useful in a still great- er degree , in enabling him to perfect that system of political economy , of which he had already delivered the principles in his lectures at ...
... afforded to him as a student of human nature , they were probably useful in a still great- er degree , in enabling him to perfect that system of political economy , of which he had already delivered the principles in his lectures at ...
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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 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...
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 236 - T is evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature, and that, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another.
الصفحة 232 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
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 59 - So unfortunate," says he, in one passage, " are the effects of all the regulations of the mercantile system, that they not only introduce very dangerous disorders into the state of the body politic, but disorders which it is often difficult to remedy, without occasioning, for a time at least, still greater disorders. — In what manner, therefore, the natural system of perfect liberty and justice ought gradually to be restored, we must leave to the wisdom of future statesmen and legislators to determine...
الصفحة 268 - 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.