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" 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? "
The Science of Language: Founded on Lectures Delivered at the Royal ... - Page 514
by Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 744 pages
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: To which is Added, a Dissertation on the ...

Adam Smith - 1767 - 498 pages
...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...acquainted with the general word, are very apt to do. An Englimman, defcribing any great river which he may have feen in fome foreign country, naturally fays,...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: To which is Added a Dissertation on the ...

Adam Smith - 1767 - 504 pages
...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...acquainted with the general word, are very apt to do. An Englifhman, defcribing any great river which he may have feen in fome foreign country, naturally fays,...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1792 - 490 pages
...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...acquainted with the general word, are very apt to do. An Englifhman, defcribing any great river which he may have feen in feme foreign country, naturally fays,...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis ..., Volume 2

Adam Smith - 1793 - 340 pages
...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...are well acquainted with the general word, are very apfr to do. An Englifhman, defcribing any great^river which he may have feen in fome foreign country...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments;, Or,, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1804 - 408 pages
...know the general word riveri, but to be acquainted only with the particular word Thafaes, if he was brought to any other .river, would he not readily call it a Thames f This, in reality, is no more than what they, who ' are well acquainted with the general *.'?«sbrv...
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The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of ...

Adam Smith - 1811 - 662 pages
...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...acquainted with the general word, are very apt to do. An Engiiihman, defcribing any great river which he may have feen in fome foreign country, naturally fays,...
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The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of ...

Adam Smith - 1811 - 602 pages
...know the general word rirer, but to be acquainted only with the particular word T/iames, if he was brought to any other river, would he not readily call...acquainted with the general word, are very apt to do. An Englifhman, defcribing any great fiver which he may have feen in fome foreign country, naturally fays,...
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The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of ...

Adam Smith - 1811 - 596 pages
...only with the particular word Tliames, if he was brought to any other river, would he not readily calt it a Thames? This, in reality, is no more than what...acquainted with the general word, are very apt to do. An Englifhman, defcribing any great river which he may have feen in fome foreign country, naturally fays,...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1817 - 776 pages
...•"» 'in JL . -m » ja WTT JJMC if^aa. H .M .'MTU. ' J JOT j, •«• *» .»J^- * ik s JU4. 1 A r* well acquainted with the general word, are very apt...country, naturally says, that it is another Thames. The Spaniards, when they first arrived upon the coast of Mexico, and observed the wealth, populousness,...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 pages
...to know the general word river, but to be acquaintpd only with the particular word Thames, if he was brought to any other river, would he not readily call...country, naturally says, that it is another Thames. The Spaniards, when they first arrived upon the coast of Mexico, and observed the wealth, populousness,...
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