 | Ted Honderich - 2001 - 326 σελίδες
...notwithstanding my frequent disappointments.' Adam Smith commented: 'Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his...virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will premit. ' Logic and Metaphysics Hume divides the contents of the mind into imptessions and ideas. Impressions... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 468 σελίδες
...prostituted to the open attack of every principle of religion, both natural and revealed, "that he had always considered him, both in his life-time and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea 1 It is with pain that the author finds himself compelled to place so great a writer as Dr. ROBERTSON... | |
 | Isabel Rivers - 2000 - 407 σελίδες
...with the transformation of Hume from Lucianic railer to Socratic hero: 'Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.'" Smith, who was apprehensive about the reception of the as yet unpublished Dialogues, was clearly unprepared... | |
 | Alfred Ayer - 2000 - 152 σελίδες
...political economist and philosopher Adam Smith (1723-90), who wrote of Hume 'upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his life-time and since his death, as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will admit'.... | |
 | A. J. Youngson - 2001 - 468 σελίδες
...of him is no more laudatory than what was said by scores of others: 'Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his...of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the frailty of human nature will admit.' His tomb is a grand Roman cylinder with a fluted frieze, a Doric... | |
 | David O'Connor, George Pattison - 2001 - 252 σελίδες
...balanced . . . than that perhaps of any other man 1 have ever known ... l have always considered him ... as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly...as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. (Smith 1947: 247,81 Hume's demeanour and behaviour in the months before his death are a good illustration... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2001 - 226 σελίδες
...Hume to Socrates. Alluding to the last sentence of Plato's Phaedo, Smith says of Hume: "I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will... | |
 | Karl Marx - 2002 - 260 σελίδες
...deathbed with Lucian and whist," and because he even had the impudence to write of Hume: "I have always considered him both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of perfectly wise and virtuous man, as, perhaps, the nature of human frailty will permit." The Bishop... | |
 | Donald K. Sharpes - 2002 - 550 σελίδες
...Independence. Adam Smith wrote of Hume shortly after hearing of his death: "Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human fraility will... | |
 | James Buchan - 2009 - 468 σελίδες
...most virtuous, and on the whole the wisest and most just.' Phaed. 1 18. 'Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' Correspondence of Smith (see Ch. 5, n. 5), p. 221. 27. The Mirror, No. 42, Saturday, 19 June 1779.... | |
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Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. 
