 | 1809 - Počet stránok 612
...greatest depth of thought, and a capacity in every respect the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime...as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. I ever am, dear Sir, most af. fcetionately yours, ADAM SMITH. Soite of the last choice Kurds of Dr.... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - Počet stránok 540
...greatest depth of thought; and a capacity in every respect the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime...perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature ef human frailty will permit. I ever am, dear Sir, Most affectionately yours, ADAM SMITH. V CONTENTS... | |
 | James Boswell - 1810 - Počet stránok 438
...confidential letter to his friend, but a letter which is published* with all formality) : " Upon the whole, I have always considered him, " both in his lifetime, and since his death, as approach* This letter, though shattered by the sharp shot of Dr. Home of Oxford's wit, in the character... | |
 | William Magee - 1812 - Počet stránok 564
...has delivered the following testimony: — " I have always considered Mr. Hume, both in his life time and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." — Letter from Adam Smith, LLD to W. Strahan, Esq. annexed to Hume's Life, and prefixed to the late... | |
 | 1812 - Počet stránok 666
...instance, who is not to be suspected of ehthueiastical feeling ; and whom Dr. A. Smith considered, ' as approaching as nearly to the idea of a ' perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of hu' man frailty will permit,' having made literary distinction his ruling passion, was so exasperated... | |
 | William Magee - 1813 - Počet stránok 556
...man as Adam Smith h»s delivered the following testimony : — " I have always considered Mr. Hume, both in his life-time and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a PERFECTLY wise ^IND viitTuocs MAN, as perhaps the nature of human frailty Will permit." '—Letter from, Mam Smith... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1814 - Počet stránok 282
...eonsiders, " both in his lifetime and sinee his death, as approaehing as nearly to the idea of o perfeetly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit !" Let us now view a Christian's antieipation of death. Wateh thou in all tilings, endure afflietions,... | |
 | 1817 - Počet stránok 590
...less singular than this, in a strain very similar, "I have always considered Mr. Hume, both in bis lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit."* We do therefore say, that we see no satisfactory evidence of that sincere and habitual piety of which... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - Počet stránok 566
...incomparably " the BEST." Life, p. 16'. " I have always considered Mr. Hume, both in his life" time, and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the...perhaps " the nature of human frailty will permit" PREFACE. LET no reader take offence, though the subjects debated in the following pages be of a serious... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - Počet stránok 574
...incomparably " the BEST." Life, p. 16. " I have always considered Mr. Hume, both in his life" time, and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the " idea of a PERFECTLY WISE AKD VIRTUOUS MAN, as perhaps " the nature of human frailty will permit" PREFACE. LET no reader take... | |
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Upon the whole, I have always considered him, 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. 
