...first Edition of the present work, I said, that I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they have undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice,...

...last paragraph of the Moral Sentiments he says he will endeavour ' in another discourse' to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the history of jurisprudence. Here 'another discourse' means, of course, another book; but that cannot...

...the advertisement to the sixth edition of 1790 that he still hoped to add to TMS and WN a published account of 'the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in different ages and periods of society'. The discovery, in 1895, of LJ (B)...

...jurisprudence." He refers to the conclusion of the book, where he had promised to provide elsewhere an account of the general principles of law and government,...undergone in the different ages and periods of society, not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else...

...Sentiments (hereafter IMS) and The Wealth of Nations (hereafter WN). He had in mind a third work on 'the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society' (Smith, 1976B, 342), but as...

...to address such topics in another book — that is, (in the words of his fmal paragraph) to "give an account of the general principles of law and government...undergone in the different ages and periods of society" (p. 537). From this perspective, then, one which is at least implicit in Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments,...

...Theory of Moral Sentiments, with this statement: I shall in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government,...undergone in the different ages and periods of society, not only in what concerns justice, hut in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else...

...greater whole; as the parts of a grand synthetic system which he hoped to complete with a published account of 'the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society'.3 The area of study just mentioned...

..."the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations"), "and of the different revolutions they have undergone in the different ages and periods of society, not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else...

...Moral Sentiments, Smith announced his next project: "I shall in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government,...undergone in the different ages and periods of society, not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns policy revenue and arms, and whatever else...