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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... requisite to gratify curiosity with respect to an artificial method of reasoning , which had once occupied the uni- versal attention of the learned , he dedicated all the rest of his time to the delivery of a system of 8 ACCOUNT OF THE ...
... requisite to gratify curiosity with respect to an artificial method of reasoning , which had once occupied the uni- versal attention of the learned , he dedicated all the rest of his time to the delivery of a system of 8 ACCOUNT OF THE ...
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... respect to it are very different from each other . Ac- cording to Mr. Hume , all the qualities which are denom- inated virtuous , are useful either to ourselves or to others , and the pleasure which we derive from a view of them is the ...
... respect to it are very different from each other . Ac- cording to Mr. Hume , all the qualities which are denom- inated virtuous , are useful either to ourselves or to others , and the pleasure which we derive from a view of them is the ...
Strana 15
... respect to our own conduct are only applications to ourselves of decisions which we have already passed on the conduct of our neighbour . His work according- ly consists of two parts . In the former , he explains in what manner we learn ...
... respect to our own conduct are only applications to ourselves of decisions which we have already passed on the conduct of our neighbour . His work according- ly consists of two parts . In the former , he explains in what manner we learn ...
Strana 19
... respect to all the social and benevolent affections . The sympathy of the spectator with the person who feels them , coincides with his concern for the person who is the object of them . It is this redoubled sympathy which renders these ...
... respect to all the social and benevolent affections . The sympathy of the spectator with the person who feels them , coincides with his concern for the person who is the object of them . It is this redoubled sympathy which renders these ...
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... respect to others , can merit only , that his neighbours , in their turn , should observe religiously the same laws with respect to him . These observations lead Mr. Smith to anticipate a little the subject of the second great division ...
... respect to others , can merit only , that his neighbours , in their turn , should observe religiously the same laws with respect to him . These observations lead Mr. Smith to anticipate a little the subject of the second great division ...
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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.