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" When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. "
Political Economy: Its Objects, Uses, and Principles: Considered with ... - Page 29
by Alonzo Potter - 1840 - 318 pages
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Biographical Memoirs, of Adam Smith, LL. D., of William Robertson, D. D. and ...

Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...which may flow from the want of those regula" tions which the people are averse to submit to. When he " cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...to establish the best " that the people can bear." These cautions with respect to the practical application of general principles were peculiarly necessary...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - Ethics - 1817 - 776 pages
...inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit, and is often so enamoured...
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Village Conversations, Or The Vicar's Fireside, Volume 3

Sarah Renou - 1817 - 250 pages
...inconveniences which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...when he cannot establish the best system of laws, will endeavour to establish the best that the people are able to bear.'* * Smith's Theory of Moral...
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Thoughts on Currency and the Means of Promoting National Prosperity by the ...

Sir John Sinclair - Coinage - 1829 - 154 pages
...inconveniences which may flow from the want of those regulations to which the people are averse to submit. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." These cautions with respect to the practical application of general principles, were peculiarly necessary...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to meliorate the wrong ; but like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." These cautions with respect to the practical application of general principles were peculiarly necessary...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 416 pages
...people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to meliorate the wrong ; but like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." •These cautions with respect to the practical application of general principles were peculiarly necessary...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 pages
...people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to meliorate the wrong ; but like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." These cautions with respect to the practical application of general principles were peculiarly necessary...
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Life of Dr. Adam Smith

William Draper - Economics - 1830 - 44 pages
...inconveniences which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...to establish the best that the people can bear*." Finely as he has tempered in his writings the rigour, if we may so speak, of his speculative doctrines...
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...inconveniences which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...to establish the best that the people can bear*." Finely as he has tempered in his writings the rigour, if we may so speak, of his speculative doctrines...
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Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...inconveniences which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...to establish the best that the people can bear*." Finely as he has tempered in his writings the rigour, if we may so speak, of his speculative doctrines...
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