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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... period of sixty years . * Mr . Smith , the father , was a native of Aberdeenshire , and in the earlier part of his life practised at Edinburgh as a writer to the Signet . He was afterwards private secretary to the Earl of Loudoun ...
... period of sixty years . * Mr . Smith , the father , was a native of Aberdeenshire , and in the earlier part of his life practised at Edinburgh as a writer to the Signet . He was afterwards private secretary to the Earl of Loudoun ...
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... period of his life , that he cultivated with the greatest care the study of lan- guages . The knowledge he possessed of these , both ancient and modern , was uncommonly extensive and accurate ; and , in him , was subservient , not to a ...
... period of his life , that he cultivated with the greatest care the study of lan- guages . The knowledge he possessed of these , both ancient and modern , was uncommonly extensive and accurate ; and , in him , was subservient , not to a ...
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... period his acquaintance with Mr. David Hume commenced , does not appear from any in- formation that I have received ; but from some papers , now in the possession of Mr. Hume's nephew , and which he has been so obliging as to allow me ...
... period his acquaintance with Mr. David Hume commenced , does not appear from any in- formation that I have received ; but from some papers , now in the possession of Mr. Hume's nephew , and which he has been so obliging as to allow me ...
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... period he used frequently to look back to , as the most useful and happy of his life . It was indeed a situation in which he was eminently fitted to excel , and in which the daily labors of his profession were constantly re- calling his ...
... period he used frequently to look back to , as the most useful and happy of his life . It was indeed a situation in which he was eminently fitted to excel , and in which the daily labors of his profession were constantly re- calling his ...
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... period when they were not much studi- ed in this island . In the same volume with the Theory of Moral Senti- ments , Mr. Smith published a Dissertation " on the Ori- gin of Languages , and on the different Genius of those which are ...
... period when they were not much studi- ed in this island . In the same volume with the Theory of Moral Senti- ments , Mr. Smith published a Dissertation " on the Ori- gin of Languages , and on the different Genius of those which are ...
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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 51 - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
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 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 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 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 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.