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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... round one of them , and by their repeated impulfes to impel the other , both to move towards it , and to follow its motion , we fill up the interval betwixt them , we join them together by a fort of bridge , and thus take off that ...
... round one of them , and by their repeated impulfes to impel the other , both to move towards it , and to follow its motion , we fill up the interval betwixt them , we join them together by a fort of bridge , and thus take off that ...
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... round the earth in parallel circles , which widened gradually from the poles to the equator , were naturally thought to have all the marks of being fixed , like fo many gems , in the concave fide of the firmament , and of being carried ...
... round the earth in parallel circles , which widened gradually from the poles to the equator , were naturally thought to have all the marks of being fixed , like fo many gems , in the concave fide of the firmament , and of being carried ...
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... round the earth . There was not indeed , in this cafe , the fame ground for the fuppofition of fuch sphere as in that of the Fixed Stars ; for neither the Sun nor the Moon appear to keep always at the fame diftance with regard to any ...
... round the earth . There was not indeed , in this cafe , the fame ground for the fuppofition of fuch sphere as in that of the Fixed Stars ; for neither the Sun nor the Moon appear to keep always at the fame diftance with regard to any ...
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... round their common centre , by varied , but by equable and proportionable motions . It feems to have been the beauty of this fyftem that gave Plato the notion , of fomething like an harmonic proportion , to be discovered in the motions ...
... round their common centre , by varied , but by equable and proportionable motions . It feems to have been the beauty of this fyftem that gave Plato the notion , of fomething like an harmonic proportion , to be discovered in the motions ...
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... round a watch , like a Sphere upon its axis , the pendulum will , while turned round along with it , ftill continue to ofcillate , and com- municate to whatever body is comprehended within it , both its own ofcillations and the circular ...
... round a watch , like a Sphere upon its axis , the pendulum will , while turned round along with it , ftill continue to ofcillate , and com- municate to whatever body is comprehended within it , both its own ofcillations and the circular ...
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abſtract aftronomers agreeable almoſt ancient appear Ariftotle becauſe body cafe caufes compofed confequence confiderable confifted Copernicus correfpondent diftinct diftinguiſhed diſcovered diſtance doctrine eafily Earth Effence Engliſh eſtabliſhed excited exiſtence expreffion exprefs faid fame manner fcience fecond feel feems fenfation fenfe fenfible fentiments feparate fhall fhould fimple firft firſt fituation fociety folid fome fomething fometimes foon fpecies ftate ftill fubftance fubject fucceffion fuch fufficient fuggeft fuperior fuppofed fyftem fyllable greateſt himſelf Hipparchus imagination imitation inftrumental intereft itſelf laft language laſt leaſt lefs meaſure moft moral moſt motion Mufic muft muſt nature neceffarily neceffary obfervations object occafion oppofite paffion particular perfon philofophers Planets Plato pleaſure poffible prefent prepofitions principles Ptolemy publiſhed purpoſe qualities reafon refemblance refifting refpect reft reprefent SECT ſeems Smith ſpecific ſtill ſyſtem taſte thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion Tycho Brahe underſtanding univerfal uſe verfe vifible Wealth of Nations whofe words
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Страница 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?
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 518 - But one submissive Word, which you let fall, Will make him in good Humour with us All.
Страница 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.