 | Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 pages
...people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit, and is often so enamoured... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...people are adverse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong ; but like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, lie will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear."f These cautions with respect to... | |
 | 1857 - 904 pages
...best security. On the contrary, if he cannot establish the right he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong, but like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavor to establish the best that the people can bear. The sentiment of reverence for law, should... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pages
...people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong ; but like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will try to establish the best that the people can bear. The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 250 pages
...he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain' to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, where he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." But although Prudence, Justice, and Benevolence comprise all the qualities and actions which go to... | |
 | John Rae - 1895 - 484 pages
...practise considerable accommodation. If he cannot carry the right he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong, but, " like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." 2 Turgot made too little account, he thought, of the resisting power 1 Clayden's Early Life of Samuel... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1905 - 240 pages
...Stewart, Life of Adam Smith in Works, vol. xp 68. establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear1. Adam Smith was clear that by the comparison of other polities the condition of a country might... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 pages
...well as he can his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people. . . . Like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." l It may be noted in passing that Adam Smith used precisely the same expression regarding the system... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 pages
...well as he can his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people. . . . Like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear."1 It may be noted in passing that Adam Smith used precisely the same expression regarding the... | |
 | John Taylor Peddie - 1918 - 260 pages
...people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong ; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." 1 And the following passage by Hume bears very much on the same point : — " In all cases it must... | |
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When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish • the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. 
