| Adam Smith (économiste) - 1761 - 458 σελίδες
...better principles, had it not in fome refpects bordered upon the truth. A fyftem of natural philofophy may appear very plaufible, and be for a long time very generally received in the world, ' and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any fort of refemblance to the truth. The vortices of Des Cartes... | |
| Adam Smith - 1767 - 498 σελίδες
...better principles, had it not in fome refpects bordered upon the truth. A fyftem of natural philofophy may appear very plaufible, and be for a long time very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any fort of refemblance to the truth. The vortices of DCS Cartes... | |
| Adam Smith - 1767 - 504 σελίδες
...better principles, had it not in fome refpedis bordered upon the truth. A fyftem of natural philofophy may appear very plaufible, and be for a long time very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any fort of refemblance to the truth. The vortices of Des Cartes... | |
| Adam Smith - 1792 - 490 σελίδες
...refpects bordered upon the truth. A fyftem of natural philofophy may appear very plaufible, and be for for a long time very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any fort of refemblance to the truth. The vortices of DCS Cartes... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1803 - 238 σελίδες
...equal propriety to the fcience of mind in general. " A fyftem of Natural Philofophy," he remarks, " may appear very plaufible, " and be, for a long time, very generally " received in the world, and yet have no " foundation in nature, nor any fort of re" femblance to the truth. But it is other" wife with... | |
| Adam Smith - 1811 - 596 σελίδες
...remarked, no fyftem in morals can n. well gain our affent, if it does not border, in fome refpects, upon the truth. " A fyftem ** of natural philofophy...time very generally received in the world, " and yet have no foundation in nature ; but " the author who fhould affign as the caufe ** of any natural fentiment,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 σελίδες
...respects, upon the truth. " A system of natural philosophy (he ob" serves) may appear very plausible, and be for a long time " very generally received in the world, and yet have no " foundation in nature ; but the author who should assign " as the cause of any natural sentiment,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1812 - 642 σελίδες
...better principles, had it not in fome relpedls bordered upon the truth. A fyftem of natural philofophy may appear very plaufible, and be for a long time very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any fort of refemblance to the truth. The vortices of Des Cartes... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 σελίδες
...science of mind in general. " A system of Natural Philosophy," he remarks, " may appear very plausible, and be, for a long time, very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any sort of resemblance to the truth. But it is otherwise with systems... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - 1822 - 614 σελίδες
...general. " A fyftem of Natural Pliilofophy," he remarks, ." may appear very plaufible, and Da " be, " be, for a long time, very generally received " in the world, and yet have no foundation in " nature, nor any fort of refemblance to the " truth. But it is otherwife with... | |
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