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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... perhaps regard the death of his enemy as but a small conpensation for a trifling wrong . But his observations on the conduct of others have taught him how horrible such sanguinary revenges are ; and he has impressed it on his mind as an ...
... perhaps regard the death of his enemy as but a small conpensation for a trifling wrong . But his observations on the conduct of others have taught him how horrible such sanguinary revenges are ; and he has impressed it on his mind as an ...
Strana 31
... perhaps be collected from the casual observations of travellers , who have viewed the arrange- ments of rude nations ; but nothing , it is evident , can be obtained in this way , which approaches to a regular and connected detail of ...
... perhaps be collected from the casual observations of travellers , who have viewed the arrange- ments of rude nations ; but nothing , it is evident , can be obtained in this way , which approaches to a regular and connected detail of ...
Strana 32
... perhaps , a better opportu- nity than in any other instance whatever , of comparing the natural advances of the mind with the actual suc- cession of hypothetical systems ) was one of Mr. Smith's earliest compositions , and is one of the ...
... perhaps , a better opportu- nity than in any other instance whatever , of comparing the natural advances of the mind with the actual suc- cession of hypothetical systems ) was one of Mr. Smith's earliest compositions , and is one of the ...
Strana 38
... perhaps you need not build much on this sally . " In recompence for so many mortifying things , which nothing but truth could have extorted from me , and which I could easily have multiplied to a greater num- ber , I doubt not but you ...
... perhaps you need not build much on this sally . " In recompence for so many mortifying things , which nothing but truth could have extorted from me , and which I could easily have multiplied to a greater num- ber , I doubt not but you ...
Strana 40
... perhaps a change equally fortunate ; as it interrupted that studious leisure for which nature seems to have destined him , and in which alone he could have hoped to accomplish those literary projects which had flattered the ambition of ...
... perhaps a change equally fortunate ; as it interrupted that studious leisure for which nature seems to have destined him , and in which alone he could have hoped to accomplish those literary projects which had flattered the ambition of ...
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Strana 236 - The sole end of logic is to explain the principles and operations of our reasoning faculty, and the nature of our ideas ; morals and criticism regard our tastes and sentiments; and politics consider men as united in society, and dependent on each other.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 51 - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 71 - As I have left the care of all my literary papers to you, I must tell you that, except those which I carry along with me, there are none worth the...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.