Essays in Political and Moral PhilosophyHodges, Foster & Figgis, 1879 - 483 páginas |
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... spirit of hoarding must exist , with a desire for that sort of wealth which contains much value in a durable and portable form , and which is easily hidden , easily removed , and none the worse for being buried for months or years in ...
... spirit of hoarding must exist , with a desire for that sort of wealth which contains much value in a durable and portable form , and which is easily hidden , easily removed , and none the worse for being buried for months or years in ...
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... and the activity of their bodies . ' * X As regards the public spirit which animates each individual. * Wealth of Nations , book v . , c . i . * The Limits of Exact Science as applied to History The Individual and the Crowd . 23.
... and the activity of their bodies . ' * X As regards the public spirit which animates each individual. * Wealth of Nations , book v . , c . i . * The Limits of Exact Science as applied to History The Individual and the Crowd . 23.
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Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie. X As regards the public spirit which animates each individual of the body , a hunting tribe or nomad horde might perhaps be compared more justly with a herd of buffaloes or a pack of wolves , than with a ...
Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie. X As regards the public spirit which animates each individual of the body , a hunting tribe or nomad horde might perhaps be compared more justly with a herd of buffaloes or a pack of wolves , than with a ...
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... spirit which at the other side animated Europe towards the close of the fifteenth century . But the Reformation , was not it the work of a single man ? On the contrary , the Reformation must have happened in Eng- land , in Bohemia , and ...
... spirit which at the other side animated Europe towards the close of the fifteenth century . But the Reformation , was not it the work of a single man ? On the contrary , the Reformation must have happened in Eng- land , in Bohemia , and ...
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... spirit ; by faith and doubt ; by learning and material wealth ; by the useful and the sublime and beautiful ; by soaring genius and by common sense . Such and so various have been the human agencies which have con- tributed to the ...
... spirit ; by faith and doubt ; by learning and material wealth ; by the useful and the sublime and beautiful ; by soaring genius and by common sense . Such and so various have been the human agencies which have con- tributed to the ...
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Página 154 - ... greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 154 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 53 - All systems, either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to -pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.
Página 44 - Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Página 45 - The heart knoweth its own bitterness ; and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy.
Página 166 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations...
Página 36 - And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject...
Página 32 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Página 44 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Página 55 - It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty both of the workman, and of those who might be disposed to employ him. As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the others from employing whom they think proper.