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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ... - Page 419
by Adam Smith - 1817 - 598 pages
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...equipage, for architecture, statuary, painting, and music, is to be regarded as luxury, sensuality, and ostentation, even in those whose situation allows,...opprobrious names, the arts of refinement could never find employment, and must languish for want of encouragement. Some popular ascetic doctrines which had been...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...equipage, for architecture, statuary, painting, and music, is to be regarded as luxury, sensuality, and ostentation, even in those whose situation allows,...is certain that luxury, sensuality, and ostentation arc public benefits, since, without the qualities upon which he thinks proper to bestow such opprobrious...
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Introductory Lectures on Political-economy: Being Part of a Course Delivered ...

Richard Whately - 1831 - 282 pages
...equipage, for architecture, statuary, painting, and music, is to be regarded as luxury, sensuality, and ostentation, even in those whose situation allows,...had been current before his time, and which placed virtue in the entire extirpation and annihilation of all our passions, were the real foundation of...
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Introductory Lectures on Political-economy, Delivered at Oxford, in Easter ...

Richard Whately - 1847 - 348 pages
...equipage, for architecture, statuary, painting, and music, is to be regarded as luxury, sensuality, and ostentation, even in those whose situation allows,...had been current before his time, and which placed virtue in the entire extirpation and annihilation of all our passions, were the real foundation of...
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The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man

Dugald Stewart - 1849 - 450 pages
...equipage, for architecture, statuary, painting, and music, is to be regarded as luxury, sensuality, and ostentation, even in those whose situation allows,...opprobrious names, the arts of refinement could never find employment, and must languish for want of encouragement. Some popular ascetic doctrines which had been...
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The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man

Dugald Stewart - 1852 - 480 pages
...names, the arts of refinement could never find employment, and must languish for want of encouragement. Some popular ascetic doctrines which had been current before his time, and them altogether, and either gives them no name at all, or, if he gives them any, it is one which marks...
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The theory of moral sentiments, or, An essay towards an analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 pages
...equipage ; for architecture, statuary, painting, and music, is to beregarded as luxury, sensuality, and ostentation, even in those whose situation allows,...qualities upon which he thinks proper to bestow such approbrious names, the arts of refinement could never find encouragement, and must languish for want...
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Introductory Lectures on Political-economy, Delivered at Oxford, in Easter ...

Richard Whately - 1855 - 396 pages
...equipage, for architecture, statuary, painting, and music, is to be regarded as luxury, sensuality, and ostentation, even in those whose situation allows,...had been current before his time, and which placed virtue in the entire extirpation and annihilation of all our passions, were the real foundation of...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and ...

Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 438 pages
...equipage, for architecture, statuary, painting, and music, is to be regarded as luxury, sensuality, and ostentation, even in those whose situation allows,...opprobrious names, the arts of refinement could never find employment, and must languish for want of encouragement. Some popular ascetic doctrines which had been...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and ...

Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 444 pages
...equipage, for architecture, statuary, painting, and music, is to be regarded as luxury, sensuality, and ostentation, even in those whose situation allows,...opprobrious names, the arts of refinement could never find employment, and must languish for want of encouragement. Some popular ascetic doctrines which had been...
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