 | Adam Smith (économiste) - 1761 - 458 pages
...pre^ cife, accurate, and indefpenfible. The other, are loofe, vague, and indeterminate, and prefent us rather with a general idea of the perfection we...certain and infallible directions for acquiring it. A man may learn to write grammatically by rule, with the moft abfolute infallibility ; and fo, perhaps,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Ethics - 1767 - 504 pages
...are precife, accurate, and indifpenfible. The other, are loofe, vague, and indeterminate, and prefent us rather with a general idea of the perfection we...certain and infallible directions for acquiring it. A man may«learn to write grammatically by rule, with the moft abfolute infallibility ; and fo, perhaps,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Conduct of life - 1767 - 498 pages
...critics lay down for the attainment of what is lublime and elegant in compofition, and which prefent us rather with a general idea of the perfection we ought to aim at, than afford as any certain and infallible directions for acquiring it. As the different rules of morality admit... | |
 | Adam Smith - Ethics - 1774 - 504 pages
...loofe, vague, and indeterminate, and per-* fent us rather with a general idea of the per-1 fection we ought to aim at, than afford us any certain and infallible directions fot acquiring it, A man may learn to write grammatically by rule, with the moft abfolute infallibility... | |
 | Adam Smith - Ethics - 1792 - 490 pages
...critics lay down for the attainment of what is fublime and elegant in compofition, and which prefent us rather with a general idea of the perfection we...aim at, than afford us any certain and infallible direc~ tions for acquiring it. As the different rules of morality admit fuch different degrees of accuracy,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 642 pages
...are precife, accurate, and indifpenfable. The other, are loofe, vague, and indeterminate, and prefent us rather with a general idea of the perfection we...certain and infallible directions for acquiring it. A man may learn to write grammatically by rule, with the mod ablblute infallibility ; and fo, perhaps,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Ethics - 1817 - 776 pages
...one, are precise, accurate, and indispensable. The other, are loose, vague, and indeterminate, and present us rather with a general idea of the perfection we ought to aim oo at, than afford us any certain and infallible directions for acquiring it. A man may learn to write... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1833 - 336 pages
...one, are precise, accurate, and indispensable. The other, are loose, vague, and indeterminate, and present us rather with a general idea of the perfection...certain- and infallible directions for acquiring it. A man may learn to write grammatically by rule, with the most absolute infallibility; and so, perhaps,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Ethics - 1853 - 616 pages
...The one are precise, accurate, and indispensable. The other are loose, vague, and indeterminate, and present us rather with a general idea of the perfection...certain and infallible directions for acquiring it. A man may learn to write grammatically by rule, with the most absolute infallibility; and so, perhaps.... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - Emotions - 1853 - 622 pages
...sublime and elegant in composition, and which present us rather with a general idea of the perfection wo ought to aim at, than afford us any certain and infallible directions for acqniring it. As the different rules of morality admit such different degrees of accuracy, those authors... | |
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The other are loose, vague, and indeterminate, and present us rather with a general idea of the perfection we ought to aim at, than afford us any certain and infallible directions for acquiring it. 
