 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 364 pages
...publicly write : — ' Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both during 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. ' \ intellectual abilities... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1987 - 500 pages
...the most comprehensive. 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. I ever am, dear Sir, Most... | |
 | Michael Novak - 1992 - 170 pages
...always considered him," wrote Adam Smith of his friend David Hume, "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." See this remarkable eulogy,... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 pages
...epitaph to Hume with the judgment that Hume had approached 'as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit' " (TMS Appendix II, p. 40i). With Socrates, of course, there was no general curiosity about the prospects... | |
 | Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter - 1993 - 260 pages
...necessary, a man who, according to Adam Smith, approached "as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit," it is hardly to be expected that my lectures will be free from vanity. However, a natural tendency... | |
 | Thomas V. Morris - 1994 - 298 pages
...1776), writes about Hume: 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. At the same time, it has... | |
 | Robin Paul Malloy, Jerry Evensky - 1994 - 250 pages
.......' Smith concludes: '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.' (Smith, 1977, pps. 217,... | |
 | Albert William Levi - 1995 - 188 pages
...depth of thought. . . Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in this 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 admit." Chesterfield too would have... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 pages
...him during his last days, described Hume "as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." (Smith's encomium outraged his religiously orthodox contemporaries, for given Hume's reputation as... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 pages
...his resolutions. . . . 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 admit.27 His autobiography was published... | |
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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. 
