Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of George III, Količina 2Baudry's European Library, 1846 - 301 strani |
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... land he equally felt with the Colonial Slave system itself . " Let the authority of the English Government perish , " he exclaimed , " rather than be maintained by iniquity . Better to hang and draw people at once , than by unrelenting ...
... land he equally felt with the Colonial Slave system itself . " Let the authority of the English Government perish , " he exclaimed , " rather than be maintained by iniquity . Better to hang and draw people at once , than by unrelenting ...
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... lands of the nobles or of the church . This able and enlightened work , in which the germs of the French economical doctrines are plainly unfolded , was only published in 1775 ; but when Leopold succeeded his brother in 1765 62 ADAM SMITH .
... lands of the nobles or of the church . This able and enlightened work , in which the germs of the French economical doctrines are plainly unfolded , was only published in 1775 ; but when Leopold succeeded his brother in 1765 62 ADAM SMITH .
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... land - this ( the impôt foncière ) taking the place of all others , and alone being levied to support the state . Dr. Quesnay's ingenuity and learning , the boldness of his views , their great simplicity , their originality , all made a ...
... land - this ( the impôt foncière ) taking the place of all others , and alone being levied to support the state . Dr. Quesnay's ingenuity and learning , the boldness of his views , their great simplicity , their originality , all made a ...
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... land by those who are not the owners , they must pay to the owners something for the use of it ; and this is called rent , which Dr. Smith considers as entering into the price of pro- duce , together with wages and profits , that is ...
... land by those who are not the owners , they must pay to the owners something for the use of it ; and this is called rent , which Dr. Smith considers as entering into the price of pro- duce , together with wages and profits , that is ...
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... land forms the subject of the eleventh and last chapter of the first book . It is not the profit of the stock vested in land , or even of that vested in its improvement , but the portion of the produce paid to the owner for the natural ...
... land forms the subject of the eleventh and last chapter of the first book . It is not the profit of the stock vested in land , or even of that vested in its improvement , but the portion of the produce paid to the owner for the natural ...
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Stran 162 - summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several walks in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was
Stran 162 - on the day, or rather the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several
Stran 3 - find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the natives here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social virtues Here are no Hottentots without religious piety or articulable language, no Chinese perfectly polite
Stran 31 - to think naturally and express forcibly. He taught us that it was possible to reason in rhyme. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry, embellished by Dryden;
Stran 3 - human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason ; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced in most countries their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
Stran 169 - Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens. Mauled as I had been by Johnson, Gibbon poured balm upon my bruises, by condescending once or twice in the course of the evening to talk with me. The great historian was light and playful,
Stran 235 - was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop, of the third book, had given an indirect solution of the problem concerning the Precession ; the Nutation had only been by
Stran 156 - Yet listen to his moan over the want of that sovereign authority which a social position exercises, but so as to make its service perfect freedom compared with the slavery of nullity and ennui. " While so many of my acquaintance were married, or in Parliament, or advancing with a rapid step in the various roads
Stran 169 - Johnson. Their manners and tastes, both in writing and conversation, were as different as their habiliments. On the day I first sat down with Johnson, in his rusty brown suit, and his black worsted stockings. Gibbon was placed opposite to me in a suit of flowered velvet, with a
Stran 22 - amidst the murmurs of envy and the gratulations of applause; attended from pleasure to pleasure by the great, the sprightly, and the vain; their regard solicited by the obsequiousness of gallantry, the gayety of wit, and the timidity of love;'