 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 450 pages
...business of politicians, especially in the domestic government of the state, where the public good, which is, or ought to be, their object, depends on the concurrence...on accidents and chances, and the caprices of a few persons."1 To these profound reflections of Mr. Hume, it may be added, (although the remark docs not... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 584 pages
...business of politicians, especially in the domestic government of the state, where the public good, which is or ought to be their object, depends on the concurrence...as in foreign politics, on accidents and chances, OF COMMERCE. 279 and the caprices of a few persons. This therefore makes the difference between particular... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...business of politicians ; especially in the domestic government of the state, where the public good, which is or ought to be their object, depends on the concurrence of a multitude of cases, not, as in foreign politics, upon accidents and chances, and the caprices of a few persons."i... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...business of politicians ; especially in the domestic government of the state, where the public good, which is or ought to be their object, depends on the concurrence of a multitude of cases, not, as in foreign politics, upon accidents and chances, and the caprices of a few persons."1... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1857 - 450 pages
...subjects of domestic policy as fine as it is possible, adds, " that in these affairs, the inferences rest on the concurrence of a multitude of causes, not as in foreign politics, upon accidents, and chances, and the caprices of a few persons." * It may, however, be observed, that... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1857 - 446 pages
...subjects of domestic policy as fine as it is possible, adds, " that in these affairs, the inferences rest on the concurrence of a multitude of causes, not as in foreign politics, upon accidents, and chances, and the caprices of a few persons." * It may, however, be observed, that... | |
 | 1869 - 974 pages
...business of politicians, especially in the domestic gorernment of the State, when the publie good, which is or ought to be their object, depends on the concurrence of a multitude of causes." — — David Hume. SECRECY is suspicious. Honesty is the highest form of morality as between man and... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 488 pages
...subjects of domestic policy as fine as it is possible, adds, " that in these affairs, the inferences rest on the concurrence of a multitude of causes, not as in foreign politics, upon accidents, and chances, and the caprices of a few persons." * It may, however, be observed, that... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 492 pages
...subjects of domestic policy as fine as it is possible, adds, " that in these affairs, the inferences rest on the concurrence of a multitude of causes, not as in foreign politics, upon accidents, and chances, and the caprices of a few persons." * It may, however, be observed, that... | |
 | David Hume - 1889 - 530 pages
...business of politicians ; especially in the domestic government of the state, where the public good, which is, or ought to be their object, depends on the concurrence...deliberations and general reasonings, and renders subtility and refinement much more suitable to the latter than to the former. I thought this introduction... | |
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... and it is the chief business of philosophers to regard the general course of things. I may add, that it is also the chief business of politicians; especially in the domestic government of the state, where the public good, which is, or ought to be... 
