 | Early English newspapers - 1795 - 700 pages
...urulercinf, tti PrvdutHiiru, Cluatte, dirt ¥t iff t Protlutlt, knowledge of which he only poíieífed the outlines. " The opinions he formed of men, upon...nature inclined him much more to blind partiality than ill-founded preju.Uce. The enlarged views of human atr.tirs, on which hi: mind habitually dwelt, left... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economists - 1795 - 402 pages
...of knowledge of which he only poffefled the outlines. The opinions he formed of men, upon a ffight acquaintance, were frequently erroneous ; but the...ill-founded prejudice. The enlarged views of human aflairs, on which his mind habitually dwelt, left him neither time nor inclination to ftudy, in detail,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 752 pages
...when he gave a loofe to his genius, upon the very few branches of knowledge of which he only poffefled the outlines. • The opinions he formed of men, upon...human affairs, on which his mind habitually dwelt, led him neither time nor inclination to ftudy, in detail, the uninrerefting peculiarities of ordinary... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 830 pages
...lie gave a loofe to his genius, upon the verv few branches of knowledge of which he only poffefled the outlines. The opinions he formed of men, upon...prejudice. The enlarged views of human affairs, on Vvhich his mind habitually dwelt, left him neither time nor inclination to Surly, in detail, the uninterefting... | |
 | History - 1807 - 750 pages
...; but the tendency of his nature inclined biro much more to blind partiality, than to ill -founded prejudice. The enlarged views of human affairs, on...habitually dwelt, left him neither time nor inclination to study in detail, the uninteresting peculiarities of ordinary characters ; and accordingly, though intimately... | |
 | Adam Smith - English literature - 1811 - 602 pages
...upon thofe topics that were introduced by others. Indeed, his converfation was never more amu£ ing than when he gave a loofe to his genius, upon the...habitually dwelt, left him neither time nor inclination to ftudy,in detail, the uninterefting peculiarities of ordinary characters; and accordingly, though'intimately... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 596 pages
...when he gave a loofe to his genius, upon the very few branches of knowledge of which he only pofleffed the outlines. The opinions he formed of men, upon....habitually dwelt, left him neither time nor inclination to ftudy,in detail, the uninterefting peculiarities of ordinary characters; and accordingly, though intimately... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...knowledge of which he only possessed the outlines. <: The opinions he formed of men, upon a slight acquaintance, were frequently erroneous ; but the...habitually dwelt, left him neither time nor inclination to study, in detail, the uninteresting peculiarities of ordinary characters ; and accordingly, though... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 662 pages
...when he gave a loofe to his genius, upon the very few branches of knowledge of which he only pofleffed the outlines. The opinions he formed of men, upon a flight acquaintance, were frequently erro-' neous ; but the tendency of his nature inclined him much more to blind partiality, than to ill-founded... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...of knowledge of which he only possessed the outlines. The opinions he formed of men, upon a slight acquaintance, were frequently erroneous ; but the...habitually dwelt, left him neither time nor inclination to study, in detail, the uninteresting peculiarities of ordinary characters ; VOL. VII. 10 and accordingly,... | |
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... the outlines. The opinions he formed of men, upon a slight acquaintance, were frequently erroneous ; but the tendency of his nature inclined him much more to blind partiality, than to ill-founded prejudice. 
