Adam Smith (1723-1790)G.P. Putnam's sons, 1881 - 201 páginas |
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... thought , co - operation would have been well - nigh impracticable . Such , however , is not our object . We seek to lay before the reader what each English Philosopher thought and wrote about the problems with which he dealt , not what ...
... thought , co - operation would have been well - nigh impracticable . Such , however , is not our object . We seek to lay before the reader what each English Philosopher thought and wrote about the problems with which he dealt , not what ...
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... thought . ' 1 Mémoires , i . 244. " Sa Théorie des Sentimens Moraux m'avait donné une grande idée de sa sagacité et de sa profondeur . " Yet , according to Grimm , it had no success in Paris . Corresp . , iv . 291 . B The publication of ...
... thought . ' 1 Mémoires , i . 244. " Sa Théorie des Sentimens Moraux m'avait donné une grande idée de sa sagacité et de sa profondeur . " Yet , according to Grimm , it had no success in Paris . Corresp . , iv . 291 . B The publication of ...
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... thoughts of marriage ; but if he thus failed of the happiest condition of life , it is equally true that he was spared the greatest sorrows of human existence , and a number of minor troubles and anxieties . The domestic economy was ...
... thoughts of marriage ; but if he thus failed of the happiest condition of life , it is equally true that he was spared the greatest sorrows of human existence , and a number of minor troubles and anxieties . The domestic economy was ...
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... The letter is dated April 12 , 1759 : - " I give you thanks for the agreeable present of your Theory . Wedderburne and I made presents of our copies to such of our BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . · • 9 acquaintances as we thought 8 ADAM SMITH .
... The letter is dated April 12 , 1759 : - " I give you thanks for the agreeable present of your Theory . Wedderburne and I made presents of our copies to such of our BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . · • 9 acquaintances as we thought 8 ADAM SMITH .
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James Anson Farrer. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . · • 9 acquaintances as we thought good judges , and proper to spread the reputation of the book . I sent one to the Duke of Argyll , to Lord Lyttleton , Horace Walpole , Soame Jennyns , and Burke ...
James Anson Farrer. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . · • 9 acquaintances as we thought good judges , and proper to spread the reputation of the book . I sent one to the Duke of Argyll , to Lord Lyttleton , Horace Walpole , Soame Jennyns , and Burke ...
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Página 172 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake : The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next ; and next all human race...
Página 131 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Página 7 - I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society ; not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law.
Página 142 - The rich only select from the heap what is most precious and agreeable. They consume little more than the poor ; and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their own conveniency, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands whom they employ be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements.
Página 53 - Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for defence, and for defence only. It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. It prompts us to beat off the mischief which is attempted to be done to us, and to retaliate that which is already done, that the offender may be made to repent of his injustice, and that others, through fear of the like punishment, may be terrified from being guilty of the like offence.
Página 141 - The homely and vulgar proverb, that the eye is larger than the belly, never was more fully verified than with regard to him. The capacity of his stomach bears no proportion to the immensity of his desires, and will receive no more than that of the meanest peasant. The rest he is obliged to distribute among those, who prepare, in the nicest manner, that little which he himself makes use of, among those who fit up the palace in which this little is to be consumed...
Página 81 - We must view them, neither from our own place, nor yet from his, neither with our own eyes nor yet with his, but from the place, and with the eyes of a third person, who has no particular connexion with either, and who judges with impartiality between us.
Página 13 - But it has depth, and solidity, and acuteness, and is so much illustrated by curious facts, that it must at last take the public attention.
Página 86 - First, when we are about to act ; and, secondly, after we have acted.
Página 142 - ... nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life which would have been made had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants; and thus, without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.