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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 Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of ... - Page 5
by Adam Smith - 1811
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: To which is Added, a Dissertation on the ...

Adam Smith - 1767 - 498 pages
...his acceptance of it, a proper name, fignifying an individual object. If this p^rfon had been carried to another river, would he not readily have called...river ? Could we fuppofe any perfon living on the hanks of the Thames fo ignorant, as not to know the general word river, but to be acquainted only with...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: To which is Added a Dissertation on the ...

Adam Smith - 1767 - 504 pages
...his acceptance of it, a proper name, fignifying an individual objedt. If this p:rfon had been carried to another river, would he not readily have called it a river ? Could we fuppofe any perfon livingon the banks of the Thames fo ignorant, as not to know the general word river, but to be acquainted...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments; Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1774 - 504 pages
...his acceptance of it, a proper name, fignifying an individual object. If this perfon had been carried to another river, would he not readily have called...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? This, in reality,...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1792 - 490 pages
...acceptance of it, a proper name figniDD 3 fying fying an individual object. If this perfott had been carried to another river, would he not readily have called...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 ? This, in reality,...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis ..., Volume 2

Adam Smith - 1793 - 340 pages
...object. If this perfon had been carried to another river , would he not readily have called it a rivpr ? Could we fuppofe any perfon living on the banks of...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'? This, in reality,...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments;, Or,, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1804 - 408 pages
...his acceptance of it, a proper name fignifying an individual object. If this perfon had been carried to another river, would he not readily have called it a river? Could we fuppofe any per4bn' living on the banks of the Thames fo ignorant, as not to know the general word riveri, but...
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The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of ...

Adam Smith - 1811 - 602 pages
...acceptance of it, a proper name, fignifying an individual object;. If this perfon had been carried to another river, would he not readily have called...Thames fo ignorant, as not to know the general word rirer, but to be acquainted only with the particular word T/iames, if he was brought to any other river,...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 pages
...his acceptance of it, a proper name, signifying an individual object. If this person had been carried to another river, would he not readily have called it a river? Could we suppose any person living on the banks of the Thames so ignorant, as not to know the general word river,...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Brown - 1824 - 490 pages
...not readily have called it a river ? 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 ? This, in reality,...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Thomas Brown - 1826 - 548 pages
...not readily have called it a river ? 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? This, in reality,...
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