Questions in Political Economy, Politics, Morals, Metaphysics, Polite Literature, and Other Branches of Knowledge: For Discussion in Literary Societies, Or for Private Study. With Remarks Under Each Question, Original and SelectedR. Hunter, 1823 - 400 pages |
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... writers , who have expressly treated or incidentally touched upon the se- veral topics introduced . It would have been easy for the author to give an air of greater unity and originality to it by translating the sentiments of these writers ...
... writers , who have expressly treated or incidentally touched upon the se- veral topics introduced . It would have been easy for the author to give an air of greater unity and originality to it by translating the sentiments of these writers ...
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... writers in the English language . The extracts from Locke , Shaftesbury , Hume , Dr. Johnson , Adam Smith , Paley , Dugald Stewart , Professor Playfair , Dr. Brown , Malthus , Mill , Ricardo , and others , are many of them remarkable ...
... writers in the English language . The extracts from Locke , Shaftesbury , Hume , Dr. Johnson , Adam Smith , Paley , Dugald Stewart , Professor Playfair , Dr. Brown , Malthus , Mill , Ricardo , and others , are many of them remarkable ...
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... writers of this character , than the same matter shaped into the uniformity of one style . At the outset , it was the intention of the author to state the opinions of others without offering any of his own ; but partly seduced by the ...
... writers of this character , than the same matter shaped into the uniformity of one style . At the outset , it was the intention of the author to state the opinions of others without offering any of his own ; but partly seduced by the ...
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... WRITER in the Quarterly Review , No. 29 , considers the subjects of population , bullion , and corn laws , in the same light as the scho- , lastic questions of the middle ages ; and puts marks of admiration to them , expressive of his ...
... WRITER in the Quarterly Review , No. 29 , considers the subjects of population , bullion , and corn laws , in the same light as the scho- , lastic questions of the middle ages ; and puts marks of admiration to them , expressive of his ...
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... writer in a rival publication . " Political economy , " says an Edinburgh reviewer , " when considered in all its bearings , is one of the most important and useful branches of science . It has a connexion more or less intimate with ...
... writer in a rival publication . " Political economy , " says an Edinburgh reviewer , " when considered in all its bearings , is one of the most important and useful branches of science . It has a connexion more or less intimate with ...
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Page 377 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Page 117 - It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
Page 233 - Caesars' palace came The owl's long cry, and, interruptedly, Of distant sentinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appeared to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a bowshot.
Page 233 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old...
Page 248 - Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them...
Page 338 - This too is certain, that the admiration and love of order, harmony, and *° proportion, in whatever kind, is naturally improving to the temper, advantageous to social affection, and highly assistant to virtue, which is itself no other than the love of order and beauty in society.
Page 180 - There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences.
Page 296 - In the window of his mother's apartment lay Spenser's Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read, till by feeling the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents...
Page 252 - I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes; and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them, of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words,...
Page 378 - That any character — from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened — may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by applying certain means, which are to a great extent at the command and under the control, or easily made so, of those who possess the government of nations.