 ... has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant...  An Essay on the Law of Patents for New Inventions - Page viiiby Thomas Green Fessenden - 1822 - 427 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1755 - 768 pages
...naturally loses, therefore, the habit of exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1801 - 448 pages
...therefore, the habit of fuch exertion, and generally becomes as ftupid and ignorant as it is poffible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relifliing or bearing a part in any rational converfation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or... | |
 | 1840 - 662 pages
...He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of exertion, ' and generally becomes stupid and ignorant. The torpor of his ' mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing ' part in rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous ' or lender sentiment, and consequently... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender, sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
 | Richard Whately - Economics - 1831 - 282 pages
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...losi:.«, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it iu possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of judging ; and unless very particular paina have been taken to lender him otherwise, he is equally incapable... | |
 | 1832 - 572 pages
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. . . . His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expense... | |
 | Education - 1833 - 414 pages
...naturally loses, therefore, the habit of exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
 | Education - 1840 - 130 pages
...expedients, for removing difficulties which never occur, he loses the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgement... | |
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