 A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, is, if possible, more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a still more essential part of the character ot human nature. Though the state was to...  The Edinburgh Review - Pàgina 5041833Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexander Hunter - 1804 - 598 pàgines
...following Words : " A man, without the proper use of the faculties of a man, is, if pofsible, rriore contemptible than even a coward; and seems to be mutilated...of the character of human nature. Though the State were to derive no advan* tagc from the instruction1 of the inferior ranks of people, it would still... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1819 - 518 pàgines
...civilized society, seem so frequently to benumb the understanding-s of all the inferior ranks of people. A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, isr if possible, more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a... | |
 | United States. Department of Education (1867-1868) - 1868 - 990 pàgines
...if he was wholly, or even principally paid by it, he would soon learn to neglect his business. * * * A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties...than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and defonned in a still more essential part of the character of human nature. Though the state was to derive... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 616 pàgines
...civilised society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of people. A man, without the proper use of the intellectual...contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated 1 It should be remembered, however, is liable to a very formidable reduction, that the militias of... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 870 pàgines
...civilised society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of people. Л man, without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, is, if ¡Hissibli', more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated 1 It should be remembered,... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1877 - 954 pàgines
...and only as it is so generous can it expect to rear wise and noble sons. Adam Smith tells us that ' a man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man is, if possible, more contemptible than a coward ;' and advocating the instruction of the people by the State, he says : ' The more they are... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1887 - 618 pàgines
...civilized society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of >!! the inferior ranks of people. A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties...than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deforined in a still more essential part of the character of human nature. Though the state was to... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 182 pàgines
...children who excel in them. On the grounds for such interference his language is unmistakable : — "A man, without the proper use of the intellectual...of a man, is, if possible, more contemptible than a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a still more essential part of the character of... | |
 | 1890 - 1080 pàgines
...civilised society seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of the people. A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties...essential part of the character of human nature.' Such is the political economy of Adam Smith—the wise administration of the whole commonwealth, of... | |
 | Charles Birchenough - 1914 - 436 pàgines
...danger to society, the victim of all sorts of prejudice and a prey to every kind of superstition. " A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties...possible, more contemptible than even a coward, and .- oenn to be mutilated and deformed in a still more essential part of the character of human nature.... | |
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