 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pages
...— Quarterly Revieiv. 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. — Adam Smith. The calm philosophy, the careless... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 514 pages
...began chiefly to take place.' When we recollect that Adam Smith has described his friend David Hume as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit, we can only account for the manner in which Hume has... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 510 pages
...began chiefly to take place;' When we recollect that Adam Smith has described his friend David Hume as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous mah as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit, we can only account for the manner in which... | |
 | 1877 - 814 pages
...concluding remarks upon the death of Hume, " 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." Of this frailty, he exhibited no inconsiderable... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 366 pages
...publicly write :— " Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both during 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. ' intellectual abilities he possessed, than from any... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 364 pages
...publicly write : — ' Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both during 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. ' \ intellectual abilities he possessed, than from... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...continents and centuries. HUME. 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. — Adam Smith. Biography. — Born in Edinburgh 1711,... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 250 pages
...conduct. " Upon the whole," he concluded, " 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." Considering that Hume counted among his friends such... | |
 | 1882 - 486 pages
...comprehensive. His friends have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, to approach as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will ever permit. ARITHMETIC. (Including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions.)... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 pages
...l1777l," 1o L&eoey, Fifth Series, vi (1951l, 123-5. MM time, and since his death, as approaching a* nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will admit." In this last sentence Atliim Smith was deliberately... | |
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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. 
