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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 150
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1792 - 490 pages
...any regard either to the great, interefts, or to the ftrong prejudices which may oppofe it. He feems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great fociety with as much eafe as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chefs-board. He does not...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1817 - 776 pages
...without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it: he seems to imagine that he can arrange the different...chess-board: he does not consider that the pieces upon the chessboard have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them;...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 63

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different...arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board : he doenot consider that the pieces on the chess-board have no other principle of motion beside that which...
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Lives of men of letters and science who flourished in ..., Volume 2; Volume 123

Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...parts, without any regard either to the great interests or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different...chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chessboard have no other principle of motion beside that which the hand impresses upon them...
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Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volume 2

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 pages
...parts, without any regard either to the great interests or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different...ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chessboard have no other principle of motion...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 10

1846 - 636 pages
...to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the différent members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces on a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have nu other principle...
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The theory of moral sentiments, or, An essay towards an analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 pages
...without any regard either to the great interests or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it : he seems to imagine that he can arrange the different...chess-board ; he does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them...
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Lives of Philosophers of the Time of George III.

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 pages
...parts, without any regard either to the great interests or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different...chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion beside that which the hand impresses upon them...
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Lives of Philosophers of the Time of George III.

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 pages
...parts, without any regard either to the great interests or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different...chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion beside that which the hand impresses upon them;...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 9

Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...Smith has well remarked in the last edition of his Theory of Moral Sentiments) to imagine, that they can arrange the different members of a great society...arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. They do not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion than that...
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