 | Adam Smith - 1817 - 776 Seiten
...cause too, why utility pleases, has of late >een assigned by an ingenious and agreeable philoso>her, who joins the greatest depth of thought to the greatest elegance of expression, and possesses the iingular and happy talent of treating the abstrasest ubjects not only with the most perfect perspicuity,... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1853 - 622 Seiten
...that nobody has overlooked it. ( The cause, too, why utility pleases, has of late been assigned by an ingenious and agreeable philosopher, who joins...most perfect perspicuity but with the most lively eloquence. The utility of any object, according to him, pleases the master by perpetually suggesting... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 Seiten
...obvious, that nobody has overlooked it. The cause, too, why utility pleases, has of late been assigned by an ingenious and agreeable philosopher, who joins...most perfect perspicuity but with the most lively eloquence. The utility of any object, according to him, pleases the master by perpetually suggesting... | |
 | 1860 - 444 Seiten
...an ingenious and agreeable philosopher " Lad since arisen, whom Smith justly characterizes as one " who joins the greatest depth of thought to the greatest...most perfect perspicuity, but with the most lively eloquence." This was Hume. His punctum essentiale was utility. Against this conclusion Smith's " Theory... | |
 | 1860 - 880 Seiten
..."an ingenious and agreeable philosopher " had since arisen, whom Smith justly characterizes as one " who joins the greatest depth of thought to the greatest...elegance of expression, and possesses the singular and nappy talent of treating the abstrusest subjects not only with the most perfect perspicuity, but with... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 Seiten
...depth of ^)x -,</ thought to the greatest elegance of expression, and possesses the sin'*'» regular and happy talent of treating the abstrusest subjects...most perfect perspicuity, but with the most lively eloquence. The utility of any object, according to him, pleases the master by perpetu*^ ally suggesting... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 260 Seiten
...whom Smith is most indebted are certainly Mandeville, his old master Hutcheson, and his friend Hume, " an ingenious and agreeable philosopher who joins the...most perfect perspicuity, but with the most lively eloquence." (Was it the religious prejudice against Hume that left his name unmentioned in the Theory... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 Seiten
...Christian dispensation.* From p. 399, n. i : Hume would have had no difficulty in recogni2ing himself as " an ingenious and agreeable philosopher, who joins...most perfect perspicuity, but with the most lively eloquence." s From p. 4o2, n. 3 ; Hume's friend, the artist Allan Ramsay, on a brief visit to Edinburgh... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 448 Seiten
...cause too, why utility pleases, has of late been assigned by an ingenious and agreeable philosopher,1 who joins the greatest depth of thought to the greatest...most perfect perspicuity, but with the most lively eloquence. The utility of any object, according to him, pleases the master by perpetually suggesting... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 Seiten
...Free Trade, p. 132), despite Smith's frequent critiques of Humean doctrine as attributed, for example, to "an ingenious and agreeable philosopher, who joins...of thought to the greatest elegance of expression" (TMS IV.ii). 48. Foley says of the education Article ( Vif ): "Perhaps the reader would be sufficiently... | |
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The cause too, why utility pleases, has of late been assigned by an ingenious and agreeable philosopher, who joins the greatest depth of thought to the greatest elegance of expression, and possesses the singular and happy talent of treating the abstrusest... 
