The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of languages. Essays on philosophical subjects. Account of the life and writings of Dr. SmithT. Cadell, 1811 |
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... entirely disjoint the whole frame of the imagination , that it never after returns to its former tone I. and compofure , but falls either into a frenzy I and 58 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY , Of the Effects of Unexpectedness, or of Surprise.
... entirely disjoint the whole frame of the imagination , that it never after returns to its former tone I. and compofure , but falls either into a frenzy I and 58 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY , Of the Effects of Unexpectedness, or of Surprise.
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... other affortments of things we It stands have hitherto been able to make . alone and by itself in the imagination , and refuses to be grouped or confounded with any F 2 fet II . SEC T. fet of objects whatever . The HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY .
... other affortments of things we It stands have hitherto been able to make . alone and by itself in the imagination , and refuses to be grouped or confounded with any F 2 fet II . SEC T. fet of objects whatever . The HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY .
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... imagination naturally , and as it were of their own accord , our Wonder is entirely at an end . If we can recollect but a few , and which it requires too fome trouble to be able to call up , our Wonder is indeed diminished , but not ...
... imagination naturally , and as it were of their own accord , our Wonder is entirely at an end . If we can recollect but a few , and which it requires too fome trouble to be able to call up , our Wonder is indeed diminished , but not ...
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... imagination , and as it were de- tached from all the other fpecies of that genus to which it belongs . He labours , however , to connect it with fome one or other of them , Sometimes he thinks it may be placed in this , and fometimes in ...
... imagination , and as it were de- tached from all the other fpecies of that genus to which it belongs . He labours , however , to connect it with fome one or other of them , Sometimes he thinks it may be placed in this , and fometimes in ...
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... imagination to pafs from the conception of the one to that of the other , grows more and more rivetted and confirmed . As its ideas move more rapidly than external objects , it is continually running before them , and therefore ...
... imagination to pafs from the conception of the one to that of the other , grows more and more rivetted and confirmed . As its ideas move more rapidly than external objects , it is continually running before them , and therefore ...
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Сторінка 6 - Could we suppose any person living on the banks of the Thames so ignorant, as not to know the general word river, but to be acquainted only with the particular word Thames, if he was brought to any other river, would he not readily call it a Thames?
Сторінка 468 - ... to others, the grounds upon which his own opinions are founded ; and hence it is, that the known principles of an individual, who has approved to the public his candour, his liberality, and his judgment, are entitled to a weight and an authority, independent of the evidence which he is able, upon any particular occasion, to produce in their support.
Сторінка 78 - ... it is the irregular events of nature only that are ascribed to the agency and power of their gods. Fire burns, and water refreshes; heavy bodies descend, and lighter substances fly upwards, by the necessity of their own nature; nor was the invisible hand of Jupiter ever apprehended to be employed in those matters.
Сторінка 417 - Buccleugh under the author's care, and would make it worth his while to accept of that charge. As soon as I heard this, I called on him twice, with a view of talking with him about the matter, and of convincing him of the propriety of sending that young nobleman to...
Сторінка 460 - They have all of them been the constant subjects of my lectures since I first taught Mr. Craigie's class, the first winter I spent in Glasgow, down to this day, without .any considerable variation. They had all of them been the subjects of lectures which I read at Edinburgh the winter before I left it, and I can adduce innumerable witnesses, both from that place and from this, who will ascertain them sufficiently to be mine.
Сторінка 449 - Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.
Сторінка 349 - Children, however, appear at so very early a period to know the distance, the shape, and magnitude of the different tangible objects which are presented to them, that I am disposed to believe that even they may have some instinctive perception of this kind ; though possibly in a much weaker degree than the greater part of other animals.
Сторінка 518 - But one submissive Word, which you let fall, Will make him in good Humour with us All.
Сторінка 434 - At length (in the beginning of the year 1776) Mr. Smith accounted to the world for his long retreat, by the publication of his " Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.