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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Strana 7
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Strana 21
... 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 ...
Strana 41
... 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 ...
Strana 43
... 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 ...
Strana 47
... wish we could concert measures for that purpose . I am 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 ...
... wish we could concert measures for that purpose . I am 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 ...
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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.