| Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 pagina’s
...people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit, and is often so enamoured... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pagina’s
...people are adverse to submit to. 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, lie will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear."f These cautions with respect to... | |
| 1857 - 904 pagina’s
...best security. On the contrary, if 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 endeavor to establish the best that the people can bear. The sentiment of reverence for law, should... | |
| Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pagina’s
...people are averse to submit to. 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 try to establish the best that the people can bear. The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be... | |
| James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 250 pagina’s
...he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain' to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, where he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." But although Prudence, Justice, and Benevolence comprise all the qualities and actions which go to... | |
| John Rae - 1895 - 484 pagina’s
...practise considerable accommodation. If he cannot carry the right he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong, but, " like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." 2 Turgot made too little account, he thought, of the resisting power 1 Clayden's Early Life of Samuel... | |
| William Cunningham - 1905 - 240 pagina’s
...Stewart, Life of Adam Smith in Works, vol. xp 68. establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear1. Adam Smith was clear that by the comparison of other polities the condition of a country might... | |
| Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 pagina’s
...well as he can his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people. . . . Like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." l It may be noted in passing that Adam Smith used precisely the same expression regarding the system... | |
| Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 pagina’s
...well as he can his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people. . . . Like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear."1 It may be noted in passing that Adam Smith used precisely the same expression regarding the... | |
| John Taylor Peddie - 1918 - 260 pagina’s
...people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong ; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." 1 And the following passage by Hume bears very much on the same point : — " In all cases it must... | |
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