 | Harold Adams Innis - 1995 - 570 σελίδες
...was evident in the comparative peace of the nineteenth century. Samuel Johnson said that there were "few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." Rationality which accompanies the price system brings its own handicaps in the formation of monopolies.... | |
 | David Vogel - 1996 - 426 σελίδες
...interest in not being so."71 Now it may well be the case, to cite Samuel Johnson's famous epigram, that, "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."" Certainly, when one compares the profit motive to the wide range of homicidal and genocidal passions... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 σελίδες
...devotion. WASHINGTON IRVING, (1783-1859) US author. Wolfert's Roost, "The Creole Village" (1855). 1 7 There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in lames Boswell, Life of Dr. Johnson,... | |
 | Elsbeth Heaman - 1999 - 446 σελίδες
...self-interest benefited society by restraining political passions. In the words of Samuel Johnson, 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.'24 Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith agreed, adding that a healthy self-interest lay at the... | |
 | Kathleen Burk - 2000 - 536 σελίδες
...very precise about money: he liked making it - he apparently often quoted Samuel Johnson's remark that 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money' - and he was always very precise about how he spent it. He had his home ledger in which he recorded... | |
 | Douglass Adair - 2000 - 230 σελίδες
...his master to praise commerce, if moderately pursued, as a stimulus to agricultural productivity. 4. "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," March 27, 1775. 5. Gillies' Aristotle, 11:41. 6. Bernard Mandeville in his Fable of the Bees was to... | |
 | Michael Farrell - 2001 - 130 σελίδες
...People's affection for money is widely recognized. Dr Samuel Johnson said to William Strachan that 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.' Much more recently a generous attitude to wealth is suggested in the comedian Spike Milligan's remark,... | |
 | John Kenneth Galbraith - 2001 - 212 σελίδες
...Business School we give money a lot of attention. We don't see it as evil. Not at all." "Dr. Johnson said, 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.' " Another professor had intervened. "He also said, "It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.'... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 σελίδες
...privatized and valorized. Dr Johnson - a moral rigorist, yet also a hard-nosed realist - was confident that 'there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money', 28 and when Adam Smith's mentor, Francis Hutcheson, proposed his distinction between the violent and... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 σελίδες
...privatized and valorized. Dr Johnson - a moral rigorist, yet also a hard-nosed realist - was confident that 'there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money',28 and when Adam Smith's mentor, Francis Hutcheson, proposed his distinction between the violent... | |
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. 
