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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Pagina 3
... attention that filial gratitude could dictate , during the long 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 ...
... attention that filial gratitude could dictate , during the long 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 ...
Pagina 7
... attention had never been direct- ed to more important acquisitions . After a residence at Oxford of seven years , he re- turned to Kirkaldy , and lived two years with his mother ; engaged in study , but without any fixed plan for his fu ...
... attention had never been direct- ed to more important acquisitions . After a residence at Oxford of seven years , he re- turned to Kirkaldy , and lived two years with his mother ; engaged in study , but without any fixed plan for his fu ...
Pagina 8
... attention to his favorite pursuits , and famil- iarizing his mind to those important speculations he was afterwards to communicate to the world . In this view , though it afforded , in the mean time , but a very narrow scene for his ...
... attention to his favorite pursuits , and famil- iarizing his mind to those important speculations he was afterwards to communicate to the world . In this view , though it afforded , in the mean time , but a very narrow scene for his ...
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... attention to the principles of those literary compositions which contribute to persua- sion or entertainment . By these arts , every thing that we perceive or feel , every operation of our minds , is expressed and delineated in such a ...
... attention to the principles of those literary compositions which contribute to persua- sion or entertainment . By these arts , every thing that we perceive or feel , every operation of our minds , is expressed and delineated in such a ...
Pagina 11
... attention of his audience , and to afford them pleasure , as well as instruction , in following the same object , through all the diversity of shades and aspects in which it was presented , and afterwards in tracing it backwards to that ...
... attention of his audience , and to afford them pleasure , as well as instruction , in following the same object , through all the diversity of shades and aspects in which it was presented , and afterwards in tracing it backwards to that ...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith ... Dugald Stewart Volledige weergave - 1829 |
The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith ... Dugald Stewart Volledige weergave - 1829 |
The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith ... Dugald Stewart Volledige weergave - 1829 |
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 51 - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.