 | Samuel Read - 1829 - Počet stránok 440
...which has so often been ascribed to those laws,* may very easily be accounted for by other causes. That security which the laws in Great Britain give to every man that he shall enjoy the fruits of his own labour is alone sufficient to make any country flourish,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - Počet stránok 538
...deliberations ought to be governed by general principles which are always the same, as to the skill of that insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called...directed by the momentary fluctuations of affairs. When there is no probability that any such repeal can be procured, it seems a bad method of compensating... | |
 | Robert Torrens - 1843 - Počet stránok 108
...deliberations ought to be governed by general principles which are always the same, as to the skill of that insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called...politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuation of affairs. But where there is no probability that any such repeal can be procured, it... | |
 | Robert Torrens - 1844 - Počet stránok 600
...deliberations ought to be governed by general principles which are always the same, as to the skill of that insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called...politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuation of affairs. But where there is no probability that any such repeal can be procured, it... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - Počet stránok 580
...belongs not so much to the philosopher or the lawgiver as to him whom he is pleased to mention as the " insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman...politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuation of affairs." (Vol. II. p. 201.) I trust I may be excused for saying that my councils were... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - Počet stránok 318
...befongs not so much to the philosopher or the lawgiver as to him whom he is pleased to mention as the " insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman...politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuation of affairs" (vol. ii. p. '201). 1 trust I may be excused for saying that my councils were... | |
 | George Macintosh - 1847 - Počet stránok 238
...this idiosyncracy, to use the words of the infallible Adam Smith himself, " that insidious and erafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman, or politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuation of affair s,"\ has not failed to avail himself; and, accordingly, "free trade " has almost... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - Počet stránok 526
...belongs not so much to the philosopher or the lawgiver as to him whom he is pleased to mention as the " insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman...politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuation of affairs." (Vol. II. p. 201.) I trust I may be excused for saying that my councils were... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - Počet stránok 526
...belongs not so much to the philosopher or the lawgiver as to him whom he is pleased to mention as the " insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman...politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuation of affairs." (Vol. II. p. 201.) I trust I may be excused for saying that my councils were... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - Počet stránok 520
...belongs not so much to the philosopher or the lawgiver as to him whom he is pleased to mention as the "insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman...politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuation of affairs." (Vol. II. p. 201.) I trust I may be excused for saying that my councils were... | |
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... that insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a statesman or politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuations of affairs. 
