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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... period of the language , which we are now endeavouring to defcribe , it is extremely im- probable that any fuch words would be known . Though cuftom has now rendered them fami- liar to us , they , both of them , express ideas extremely ...
... period of the language , which we are now endeavouring to defcribe , it is extremely im- probable that any fuch words would be known . Though cuftom has now rendered them fami- liar to us , they , both of them , express ideas extremely ...
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... period of their lives , fo infenfibly and by fuch flow degrees , that they were fcarce ever fenfible of the difficulty . But when two nations came to be mixed with one another , either by conqueft or migration , the cafe would be very ...
... period of their lives , fo infenfibly and by fuch flow degrees , that they were fcarce ever fenfible of the difficulty . But when two nations came to be mixed with one another , either by conqueft or migration , the cafe would be very ...
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... period , muft to them have been acquirable with much more eafe , and to much greater perfection , than it can be to those whofe expreffion is conftantly confined by the pro- lixnefs , constraint , and monotony of modern languages ...
... period , muft to them have been acquirable with much more eafe , and to much greater perfection , than it can be to those whofe expreffion is conftantly confined by the pro- lixnefs , constraint , and monotony of modern languages ...
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... period , therefore , in a fhorter time , and re- quired but a month , instead of a year , to com- plete it . The Stars , when more attentively furveyed , were fome of them obferved to be lefs conftant and uniform in their motions than ...
... period , therefore , in a fhorter time , and re- quired but a month , instead of a year , to com- plete it . The Stars , when more attentively furveyed , were fome of them obferved to be lefs conftant and uniform in their motions than ...
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... retrograde appearances of the Planet , which derived from a third Sphere that revolution by which it performed its annual period . The motions of IV . of all these Spheres were in themselves conftant 102 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY .
... retrograde appearances of the Planet , which derived from a third Sphere that revolution by which it performed its annual period . The motions of IV . of all these Spheres were in themselves conftant 102 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY .
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Página 490 - He will accommodate, as well as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people, and will remedy, as well as he can, the inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to.
Página 4 - When they had occasion, therefore, to mention, or to point out to each other, any of the new objects, they would naturally utter the name of the correspondent old one, of which the idea could not fail, at that instant, to present itself to their memory in the strongest and liveliest manner. And thus, those words, which were originally the proper names of individuals, would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitude.
Página 80 - Philosophy, by representing the invisible chains which bind together all these disjointed objects, endeavours to introduce order into this chaos of jarring and discordant appearances, to allay this tumult of the imagination...
Página 476 - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
Página 373 - ... a glass of broken jelly, where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci; wherefore the shape of an object in...
Página 5 - 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?
Página 439 - may appear very plausible, and be, for a long time, very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any sort of resemblance to the truth. But it is otherwise with systems of Moral Philosophy.
Página 454 - 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...
Página 507 - ... 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.
Página 488 - 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.