| John Mitchell Mason - 1832 - 458 pages
...both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. I ever am, Dear Sir, Most affectionately yours, ADAM SMITH. Some of the last choice words of DOCTOR... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...in scepticism, Adam Smith, considered him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." But since, in his estimation, female infidelity when unknown was nothing, one needs pretty positive... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pages
...both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit" The effect of such a testimony, from such a quarter, was to put to silence, and it is to be hoped,... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...in scepticism, Adam Smith, considered him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." But since, in his estimation, female infidelity when unknown was nothing, one needs pretty positive... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." The effect of such a testimony, from such a quarter, was to put to silence, and it is to be hoped,... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit" The effect of such a testimony, from such a quarter, was to put to silence, and it is to be hoped,... | |
| 1836 - 506 pages
...indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him "as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
| 1837 - 272 pages
...indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him "as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
| 1838 - 604 pages
...indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
| Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 pages
...indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
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