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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... purpose . On the other hand , the words forum , pratum , plauftrum , denote by their peculiar termina- tion the total abfence of fex in the different fubftances which they ftand for . Both fex , and the want of all fex , being naturally ...
... purpose . On the other hand , the words forum , pratum , plauftrum , denote by their peculiar termina- tion the total abfence of fex in the different fubftances which they ftand for . Both fex , and the want of all fex , being naturally ...
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... purpose and for no other . But fucceeding obfervations discovered , that one fet of words was capable of supplying the place of all that infinite number , and that four or five prepofi- tions , and half a dozen auxiliary verbs , were ...
... purpose and for no other . But fucceeding obfervations discovered , that one fet of words was capable of supplying the place of all that infinite number , and that four or five prepofi- tions , and half a dozen auxiliary verbs , were ...
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... purposes of language : and this for the following reafons . First of all , languages are by this fimplifi- cation rendered more prolix , feveral words having become neceffary to express what could have been expreffed by a fingle word ...
... purposes of language : and this for the following reafons . First of all , languages are by this fimplifi- cation rendered more prolix , feveral words having become neceffary to express what could have been expreffed by a fingle word ...
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... purpose , and in vain look around all their claffes of ideas in order to find one under which it may be arranged . They fluctuate to no purpose from thought to thought , and we remain ftill uncer- tain and undetermined where to place it ...
... purpose , and in vain look around all their claffes of ideas in order to find one under which it may be arranged . They fluctuate to no purpose from thought to thought , and we remain ftill uncer- tain and undetermined where to place it ...
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... purpose to receive it , and call it a Play , of Nature , or give it fome other appellation , under which he ar- ranges all the oddities that he knows not what elfe to do with . But to fome clafs or other of known objects he muft refer ...
... purpose to receive it , and call it a Play , of Nature , or give it fome other appellation , under which he ar- ranges all the oddities that he knows not what elfe to do with . But to fome clafs or other of known objects he muft refer ...
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Сторінка 490 - He will accommodate, as well as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people, and will remedy, as well as he can, the inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to.
Сторінка 4 - When they had occasion, therefore, to mention, or to point out to each other, any of the new objects, they would naturally utter the name of the correspondent old one, of which the idea could not fail, at that instant, to present itself to their memory in the strongest and liveliest manner. And thus, those words, which were originally the proper names of individuals, would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitude.
Сторінка 80 - Philosophy, by representing the invisible chains which bind together all these disjointed objects, endeavours to introduce order into this chaos of jarring and discordant appearances, to allay this tumult of the imagination...
Сторінка 476 - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
Сторінка 373 - ... a glass of broken jelly, where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci; wherefore the shape of an object in...
Сторінка 5 - 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 439 - 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 of Moral Philosophy.
Сторінка 454 - 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 507 - ... 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 488 - 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.