 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 566 pages
...at Glasgow, was a pleasureable dissipated life in comparison of that which I lead here at present. I have begun to write a book, in order to pass away...the time. You may believe I have very little to do. If Sir James would come and spend a month with us in his travels, it would not only be a great satisfaction... | |
 | 1860 - 880 pages
...all my life." Dr. Smith had written to Hume from Toulouse on 5th July, 1764, saying : — " The life which I led at Glasgow was a pleasurable dissipated...time ; you may believe I have very little to do." The book here referred to, as just begun, was in all likelihood " The Wealth of Nations," and it was... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pages
...I led at Glasgow was a pleasurable dissipated life in comparison of that which I lead here. I hate begun to write a book in order .to pass away the time; you may believe I have very little to do." The book here referred to, as just begun, was in all likelihood " The Wealth of Nations," and it was... | |
 | 1878 - 802 pages
...wrote at first to David Hume, " was a pleasurable dissipated life in comparison of that which I led here. I have begun to write a book in order to pass...the time. You may believe I have very little to do." We know what the book was. It must be presumed that ere long the Scotch visitors changed their opinion... | |
 | 1878 - 794 pages
...wrote at first to David Hume, "was a pleasurable dissipated life in comparison of that which I led here. I have begun to write a book in order to pass...the time. You may believe I have very little to do." We know what the book was. It must be presumed that ere long the Scotch visitors changed their opinion... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 196 pages
...led at Glasgow was a pleasurable dissipated life in comparison of that which I lead here at present. I have begun to write a book in order to pass away...the time. You may believe I have very little to do. If Sir James would come and spend a month with us in his travels it would not only be a great satisfaction... | |
 | John Rae - 1895 - 484 pages
...led at Glasgow was a pleasurable dissipated life in comparison of that which I lead here at Present, have begun to write a book in order to pass away the time. fou may believe I have very little to do. If Sir James would tome and spend a month with us in his... | |
 | University of Glasgow - 1901 - 176 pages
...begun the first system of political economy. " I have begun to write a book," he writes to Hume, " to pass away the time. You may believe I have very little to do." Perhaps its immediate success was due to this want of consciousness. It has not the modern scientific... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 260 pages
...led at Glasgow was a pleasurable dissipated life in comparison of that which I lead here at Present. I have begun to write a book in order to pass away the time." The world has no reason to regret this want of gaiety, for the book which Smith had begun in order... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...led at Glasgow was a pleasurable, dissipated life in comparison to that which 1 lead here at present. nerable yet profoundly-verating Scottish gentleman, — that - SMITH, ADAM, 1764, Letter to David Hume, Geneva, July 5. Euge! Belle! Dear Mr. Smith: I am much pleased... | |
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The life which I led at Glasgow was a pleasurable dissipated life in comparison of that which I lead here at Present. I have begun to write a book in order to pass away the time. 
