 | Sir Thomas Elyot - 1883 - 682 pages
...enjoyment of the present moment for the probable expectation of the still greater ease and enjoyment of a more distant but more lasting period of time, the...the entire approbation of the impartial spectator.' — Ad. Smith, Theory of Moral Sent. p. 314. 'The character of Pitt,' says Lord Macaulay, ' would have... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - 1883 - 682 pages
...enjoyment of the present moment for the probable expectation of the still greater ease and enjoyment of a more distant but more lasting period of time, the...the entire approbation of the impartial spectator.' — Ad. Smith, Theory of Moral Sent. p. 314. 'The character of Pitt,' says Lord Macaulay, ' would have... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 pages
...enjoyment of the present moment for the probable expectation of the still greater ease and enjoyment of a more distant but more lasting period of time, the...spectator does not feel himself worn out by the present labor of those whose conduct he surveys; nor does he feel himself solicited by the importunate calls... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 518 pages
...enjoyment of the present moment for the probable expectation of the still greater ease and enjoyment of a more distant but more lasting period of time, the...spectator and of the representative of the impartial spectator—the man within the breast. The impartial spectator does not feel himself worn out by the... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 344 pages
...industry and frugality, in his steadily sacrificing the ease and enjoyment of the present moment of a more distant but more lasting period of time, the...the impartial spectator, the man within the breast.' (p. 314). The prudent man is mainly concerned with safeguarding his own interest, but he must be moderate... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 872 pages
...enjoyment of the present moment for the probable expectation of the still greater ease and enjoyment of a more distant but more lasting period of time, the...the entire approbation of the impartial spectator . . .' (TMS Vl.il 1 ). Interestingly enough Smith went on to add that this quality 'never is considered... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1982 - 582 pages
...enjoyment of the present moment for the probable expectation of the still greater ease and enjoyment of a more distant but more lasting period of time, the...the impartial spectator, the man within the breast. (TMS, Vl.iu) It is not diff1cult to see in this argument an anticipation of modern concerns with sociological... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - 2000 - 164 pages
...enjoyment of the present moment for the probable expectation of the still greater ease and enjoyment of a more distant but more lasting period of time, the...the entire approbation of the impartial spectator. (IMS: 2 15) Confucian tradition greatly admires hard work and frugality. In Confucian tradition work... | |
 | Martha Fineman, Terence Dougherty - 2005 - 538 pages
...Christian virtues (above all Love). The virtue of Prudence in a commercial person is overpraised in Smith: "the prudent man is always both supported and rewarded...the entire approbation of the impartial spectator." 15 Smith here is imagining a rather spiritless Impartial Spectator, who has no taste for novelty or... | |
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In the steadiness of his industry and frugality, in his steadily sacrificing the ease and enjoyment of the present moment for the probable expectation of the still greater ease and enjoyment of a more distant but more lasting period of time, the prudent... 
