 It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. It is this which first prompted them to cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 5831808Full view - About this book
 | Adam Smith (économiste) - 1761 - 458 lehte
...and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the fciences and arts, which ennoble and embellifh human life ; which have entirely changed the whole face of the globe, have turned the rude forefrs of nature into agreeable and fertile plains, and made the tracklefs and barren ocean a new... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1767 - 498 lehte
...and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the fciences and arts, which ennoble and embellim human life ; which have entirely changed the whole face of the globe, have turned the rude forefts of nature into agreeable and fertile plains, and made the tracklefs and barren ocean a new... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1767 - 504 lehte
...and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the fciences and arts, which ennoble and embellifh human life ; which have entirely changed the whole face of the globe, have turned the rude forefts of nature into agreeable and fertile plains, and made the tracklefs and barren ocean a new... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 642 lehte
...and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the fciences and arts, which ennoble and embellim human life ; which have entirely changed the whole face of the globe, have turned the rude forefts of nature into agreeable and fertile plains, and made the tracklefs and barren ocean a new... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 lehte
...first prompted them to cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish humid life; which have entirely changed the whole face of the globe, have turned the rude forests of... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 1989 - 254 lehte
...'first prompted [men] to cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish human life'. 28 Perhaps the most spectacular demonstration that it is not economic motives which in general give... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 872 lehte
...life. Man is thus led "to cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts which ennoble and embellish human life."5 This picture differs in two important respects from the popular impression of the Wealth of... | |
 | R. H. Coase - 1994 - 234 lehte
...first prompted them to culti vate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish human life" (p. 183). Benevolence is not absent from the Wealth of Nations but, as in The Theory of Moral Sentiments,... | |
 | 1996 - 321 lehte
...first prompted them to cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which...the whole face of the globe, have turned the rude forest in agreeable and fertile plains, and made the trackless and barren ocean a new fund of subsistence,... | |
 | Marc Redfield - 1996 - 252 lehte
...first prompted them to cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish human life. 12 Aimed toward beauty, desire becomes ruled by imagination and expresses itself as industry; and thus,... | |
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