| 1755 - 768 páginas
...the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as is possible for a human creature to become.... | |
| 1799 - 638 páginas
...the lame, or very neai ly the fame, has no occafion to exert his undcrftanding, or to cxercile hi» invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally lofes, therefore, the habit of luch exertion, and generally becomes as (tupid and ignorant as it is... | |
| 1817 - 292 páginas
...the understandings of the greater part 'of men are necessarily formed hy their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the eifects ate always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or... | |
| Thomas Green Fessenden - 1822 - 524 páginas
...ihe understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exercise, and becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The... | |
| 1829 - 298 páginas
...who speaks of the manufacturer in language that must Iwve been exaggerated, even in his day. He says, "the man whose whole life is spent in performing a...which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the hibits of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant, aa it is possible for a human... | |
| 1832 - 952 páginas
...(.•renter part of uicn are necessarily formed bythi'ir ordinary vmployments. The man whose whole life ia spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the наше, or very nearly the ваше, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his... | |
| 1832 - 816 páginas
...whole life is spent in per' forming a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, per' haps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to * out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He ' naturally loses, therefore, the... | |
| 1833 - 414 páginas
...the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as is possible for a human creature to become.... | |
| Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 páginas
...the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed liy their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which uic effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly tin- same, has no occasion to exert his... | |
| Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 páginas
...the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...same, has no occasion to exert his understanding- ,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedients/or removing difficulties which never occur.... | |
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