 A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, is, if possible, more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a still more essential part of the character ot human nature. Though the state was to...  The Living Age - Strana 7551923Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1833 - Počet stránok 598
...unprincipled ambition. ' A man,' (says Dr Adam Smith, who in this only echoes other political philosophers,) 'a ' man, without the proper use of the intellectual...• part of the character of human nature. Though tbe state ' was to derive no advantage from the instruction of the inferior ' ranks of the people,... | |
 | Alexander Hunter - 1804 - Počet stránok 598
...following Words : " A man, without the proper use of the faculties of a man, is, if pofsible, rriore contemptible than even a coward; and seems to be mutilated...of the character of human nature. Though the State were to derive no advan* tagc from the instruction1 of the inferior ranks of people, it would still... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1819 - Počet stránok 518
...civilized society, seem so frequently to benumb the understanding-s of all the inferior ranks of people. A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, isr if possible, more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a... | |
 | United States. Department of Education (1867-1868) - 1868 - Počet stránok 990
...if he was wholly, or even principally paid by it, he would soon learn to neglect his business. * * * A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties...than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and defonned in a still more essential part of the character of human nature. Though the state was to derive... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - Počet stránok 616
...civilised society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of people. A man, without the proper use of the intellectual...contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated 1 It should be remembered, however, is liable to a very formidable reduction, that the militias of... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - Počet stránok 870
...civilised society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of people. Л man, without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, is, if ¡Hissibli', more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated 1 It should be remembered,... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1877 - Počet stránok 954
...and only as it is so generous can it expect to rear wise and noble sons. Adam Smith tells us that ' a man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man is, if possible, more contemptible than a coward ;' and advocating the instruction of the people by the State, he says : ' The more they are... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1887 - Počet stránok 618
...civilized society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of >!! the inferior ranks of people. A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties...than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deforined in a still more essential part of the character of human nature. Though the state was to... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - Počet stránok 182
...children who excel in them. On the grounds for such interference his language is unmistakable : — "A man, without the proper use of the intellectual...of a man, is, if possible, more contemptible than a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a still more essential part of the character of... | |
 | 1890 - Počet stránok 1080
...civilised society seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of the people. A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties...essential part of the character of human nature.' Such is the political economy of Adam Smith—the wise administration of the whole commonwealth, of... | |
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