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" Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a little system, created to perform, as well as to connect together, in reality, those different movements and effects which the artist has occasion for. A system is an imaginary machine invented... "
A treatise on astronomy - Page 126
by Olinthus Gilbert Gregory - 1802
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Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature

Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...— Smith has a pretty remark, in his History of Astronomy, on Philosophical Systems. These, says he, in many respects, resemble machines : a machine, is...system, is an imaginary machine, invented to connect together, in the fancy, those different movements and effects which are already performed. How happy...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...swift motions and disquisitions.' Systems indeed, and astronomical systems perhaps more than others, in, many respects resemble machines. A machine is...system is an imaginary machine, invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed....
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Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 2

William Archer Butler - Philosophy, Ancient - 1856 - 486 pages
...Systems," says Adam rt™"ariy°n Smith*0, in one of his many passages of happy illustration, " Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a...system is an imaginary machine, invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed....
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Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 2

William Archer Butler, William Hepworth Thompson - Philosophy, Ancient - 1857 - 428 pages
...happy illustration,—" Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a little systern, created to perform as well as to connect together...system is an imaginary machine, invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effecte which are already in reality performed....
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Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation ...

Adam Smith - English essays - 1869 - 498 pages
...notice of, even in this short account of the revolutions of the philosophy of the ancients. Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a...system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed....
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Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy

William Archer Butler, William Hepworth Thompson - Philosophy, Ancient - 1874 - 604 pages
...deserts it. "Systems," says Adam Smith20, in one of his many passages of happy illustration, " Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a...perform as well as to connect together in reality those 7/u different movements and effects which the artist has oc-^ casion for. A system is an imaginary...
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Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 2

William Archer Butler - Philosophy, Ancient - 1879 - 430 pages
...machines. A machine is a little sys- pi!^ tern, created to perform as well as to connect S1'S ''"'" together in reality those different movements and...system is an imaginary machine, invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed....
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The Evolution of Economic Ideas

Phyllis Deane - Business & Economics - 1978 - 260 pages
...that Adam Smith set out to explain the everyday phenomena of economic behaviour. 'Systems' he wrote 'in many respects resemble machines. A machine is...system is an imaginary machine, invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are in reality performed.'13 In effect,...
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Communication and Control in Society

Klaus Krippendorff - Computers - 1979 - 552 pages
...expansion at the basis of the new order [28:45:46]. 5 THE LOCUS OF CONTROL Systems [of explanation] in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a...system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are in reality performed. ADAM SMITH:...
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Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Volume 1

John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 872 pages
...and discordant appearances."9 And yet again, in a famous passage, he describes his vision: Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a...system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed."' His...
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