 | George Horne - 1786 - 370 pages
...literary, incomparably the " I have always confidered Mr. ** HUME, both in his life time, and " fince his death, as approaching as " nearly to the idea of A PERFECTLY " WISE AND VIRTUOUS MAN, 3S pCT" haps the nature of human frailty *' will permit." ON I NFIJDELITY.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...\s. all formality :) ' Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his life time and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' Let Dr. Smith consider:... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1787 - 602 pages
...great and heroic character. Without the virtues of this clafs. (though Dr. Smith confiders Mr. Hume as " approaching as " nearly to the idea of a perfectly...perhaps the nature of " human frailty will permit") his character muft have been as imperfect as his views , (looking (looking to nothing beyond the grave)... | |
 | David Hume - 1789 - 452 pages
...greateft depth of thought, and a capacity in every refpect the mod comprehenfive. Upon the whole, I have always confidered him, both in his lifetime and fmce...as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. ' i I ever am, dear Sir, Moft affectionately your's, ADAM SMITH. .# OF T HE £ IRST VOLUME. CHAP. I.... | |
 | David Hume - 1789 - 536 pages
...the moft comprehenfive. Upon the whole, I have always confidered him, both in his lifetime and fince his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of...as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. I ever am, dear Sir, Moft affectionately your's, ADAM SMITH. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAP. I.... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...celebrated writer by Dr. Adam Smith I0*. It is furely extraordinary that Mr. Hume fhould be reprefented " as approaching as nearly to the " idea of a perfectly...virtuous man " as perhaps the nature of human frailty 104 Tour, p. 21, 22, 23. «« will permit.'* In fupport of this high encomium, no proper evidence has... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 pages
...moft comprehenfive. Upon the whole, I have always confidered him, both in his life-time, and fince his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." the refignation of his temper, as clearly as his other works demonftrate the power and extent of his... | |
 | George Dyer - 1801 - 368 pages
...confidered " him, both in his life-time, and fince his death, as approach" ing as nearly as poffible to the idea of a perfectly wife and ** virtuous man,...perhaps the nature of human frailty will " permit.'" L'-:. '.. A . ODE X. .A GLEE, SUNG AT THE SOMERSET-HOUSE LODGE OF FREEMASONS. / Printed in feveral... | |
 | John Aikin - 1804 - 666 pages
...him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as aproaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, .as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." This is a portrait drawn by a friend, yet it does not appear to deviate materially from the truth.... | |
 | Ely Bates - 1804 - 422 pages
...of his friend, he had always considered him as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit -f-." That I here do no injustice to this canonized * See las Life by himself, f Smith's Letter to... | |
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Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. 
