 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 662 σελίδες
...cautions with refpect to the practical application of general principles were peculiarly neceflary from the Author of " The " Wealth of Nations ;" as...chief aim of his work to recommend, is extremely apt, apt, by flattering the indolence of the ftatef- SECT. man, to fuggefl to thofe who are invefted with... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 596 σελίδες
...cautions with refpecl; to the practical application of general principles were peculiarly necefiary from the Author of "»The " Wealth of Nations;" as...'chief aim of his work to recommend, is extremely apl, by flattering the indolence of the ftatef- SECT. man, to fuggeft to thofe who are invefted with... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1817 - 776 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1817 - 250 σελίδες
...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, will endeavour to establish the best that the people are able to bear.'* * Smith's Theory of Moral... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1829 - 154 σελίδες
...people are averse to submit. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong ; but like Solon, when he cannot establish...necessary from the author of the Wealth of Nations, as the unlitidtrd freedom of trade, which it is the chief aim of his work to recommend, is extremely apt,... | |
 | William Draper - 1830 - 44 σελίδες
...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...to establish the best that the people can bear*." Finely as he has tempered in his writings the rigour, if we may so speak, of his speculative doctrines... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 σελίδες
...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...to establish the best that the people can bear*." Finely as he has tempered in his writings the rigour, if we may so speak, of his speculative doctrines... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 σελίδες
...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...to establish the best that the people can bear*." Finely as tie has tempered in his writings the rigour, if we may so speak, of his speculative doctrines... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 σελίδες
...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...to establish the best that the people can bear*." Finely as he has tempered in his writings the rigour, if we may so speak, of his speculative doctrines... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1840 - 332 σελίδες
...his public arrangements to them. If 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." It is much to be regretted that the writings of political economists have not contained more of this... | |
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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. 
