 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...have come to my knowledge. I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book 'De 1'Esprit." It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy, which I do not highly value, but for its agreeable compositionf. I had a letter from him a few • The same which he afterwards published under the title... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...have come to my knowledge. I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book 'Del'Esprit.' It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy, which I do not highly value, but for its agreeable compositionf. I had a letter from him a few * The snme which he afterward*! published under the title... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1846 - 560 pages
...have come to my knowledge. I believe I have mentioned to you already, Helvetius's book "De TEsprit." It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy,...few days ago, wherein he tells me that my name was mucl1 oftener in the manuscript, but that the censor of books at Paris obliged him to strike it out.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 556 pages
...few that have come to my knowledge. I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book De I 'Esprit. It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy,...me that my name was much oftener in the manuscript, hut that the censor of books at Paris obliged him to strike it out. Voltaire has lately published a... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 pages
...have come to my knowledge. I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book de 1'Esprit. It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy,...it out. Voltaire has lately published a small work * Published as " An Essay on the History of Civil Society." David Hume to Adam SmitJir—Ou the publication... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 pages
...have come to my knowledge. 1 believe I have mentioned to you already Ilelvetins's book do 1'Esprit. It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy,...days ago, wherein he tells me that my name was much ofteucr HI the manuscript, but that the Censor of books at Paris obliged him to strike it out. Voltaire... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 250 pages
...by a mixture of wormwood and aloes as an agreeable composition by joining metaphysics and Scotch law I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's...censor of books at Paris obliged him to strike it out But what is all this to my book ? say you. My dear Mr. Smith, have patience : compose yourself to tranquillity... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 228 pages
...joining metaphysics and Scotch law I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book de VEsprit. It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy,...censor of books at Paris obliged him to strike it out But what is all this to my book ? say you. My dear Mr. Smith, have patience : compose yourself to tranquillity;... | |
 | Wilhelm Hasbach - 1891 - 458 pages
...an @mití) fjeifet ее: „I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius' book de l'Esprit. It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy,...highly value, but for its agreeable composition." 3X (Steroartâ Siograpfyie Smitljâ aa D. @. XL VIII. (Sicjmídjaftcn, гое!фе bent nnrtfcfjaittidjeit... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1894 - 172 pages
...xlviii.), dated I2th April 1759: " I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book, De 1'Esprit. It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy,...highly value, but for its agreeable composition." Ad. Smith made the acquaintance of Helvetius in Paris in 1766. History of Great Britain. 5 vols. 4to,... | |
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I shall inform you of a few that have come to my knowledge. I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book de 1'Esprit. It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy, which I do not highly value, but for its agreeable composition. 
