 The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient; the duty of superintending...  Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Page 105edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
 | 1806 - 614 pages
...delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowlege could ever be sufficient ; the duty of superintending the industry of private...to the interest of the society *." An interesting bketch is here given of the progress and revr.lutions of manufacturing industry ; with the state of... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...delusions, and for the proper performance of which, no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient ; the duty of superintending the industry of private...employments most suitable to the interest of the society. According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to $ three... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 520 pages
...delusions, and for the proper pefformahce of which, no human wisdom of knowledge could ever be sufficient ; the duty of superintending the industry of private...directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interests of the society. According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient; the duty of superintending the industry of private...employments most suitable to the interest of the society. According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to ; three... | |
 | George Crosby - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1849 - 564 pages
...delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient— the duty of superintending the industry of private...directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interests of society." An illustration had occurred to his own mind in connexion with a different subject,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient : the duty of superintending the industry of private...employments most suitable to the interest of the society. According to the system ol natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to ; three... | |
 | Archibald Weir - Europe - 1886 - 644 pages
...which no human wisdom or foreknowledge could ever be ADAM SMITHS DOCTRINE OF TAXATION. 413 sufficient ; the duty of superintending the industry of private...employments most suitable to the interest of the society." * The negative results of the "Wealth of Nations" were qualified by exceptions in favour of the English... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - Economists - 1887 - 196 pages
...delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient — the duty of superintending the industry of private people, and of directing it towards employments most suitable to the interests of society. Such is the individualism of Adam Smith. But... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 950 pages
...delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient : the duty of superintending the industry of private...directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interests of the society " (" Wealth of Nations," book iv. c. 9). But while the Sovereign is discharged... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 pages
...delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient : the duty of superintending the industry of private people and of directing it toward the employments most suitable to the interests of the society " (" Wealth of Nations," book... | |
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