 | Daniel Webster, Edwin David Sanborn - United States - 1856 - 566 pages
...over twenty volumes, from Adam Smith to Professor Dew, of Virginia, and from the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all the mere truisms, and with...all the doubtful propositions, little would be left. On Monday we propose to take up Kendall and Nouh. My expectation is that they will both be confirmed... | |
 | William Elder - Business & Economics - 1871 - 404 pages
...over twenty volumes, from Adam Smith to Professor Dew, of Virginia, and from the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all the mere truisms, and,...the doubtful propositions, little would be left."* My other protector is Napoleon Bonaparte. Adam Smith,s "Wealth of Nations" was fairly afloat in 1784.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1875 - 564 pages
...over twenty volumes, from Adam Smith to Professor Dew, of Virginia, and from the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all the mere truisms, and with the other ah1 the doubtful propositions, little would be left. On Monday we propose to take up Kendall and Noah.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1876 - 494 pages
...over twenty volumes, from Adam Smith to Professor Dew, of Virginia ; andfrom the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all the mere truisms, and with...the doubtful propositions, little would be left." Whatever else may be said of this passage, it absolves us from the necessity of further explanation... | |
 | Peter Harvey - Statesmen - 1877 - 518 pages
...volumes, from Adam Smith to Professor Dew; and from the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all mere truisms, and with the other all the doubtful propositions, little would be left." CHAPTER VH. MR. WEBSTER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. MR. WEBSTER was at once cautious in speaking of those... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1878 - 656 pages
...volumes from Adam Smith to Prof. Dew ; and, from the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all mere truisms, and with the other all the doubtful propositions, little would be left" The passages which describe Webster's advice to Mr. Harvey to vote for Pierce would have had light... | |
 | William Elder - Economics - 1882 - 360 pages
...upon no substitute or amended system. Daniel Webster* said of Smith and his followers, " If I were to pick out with one hand all the mere truisms, and with...the doubtful propositions, little would be left." And Napoleon Bonaparte, who forbade the publication of JB Say's exposition of the Smith system, shortly... | |
 | William Elder - Economics - 1882 - 382 pages
...upon no substitute or amended system. Daniel Webster* said of Smith and his followers, " If I were to pick out with one hand all the mere truisms, and with...the doubtful propositions, little would be left." And Napoleon Bonaparte, who forbade the publication of JB Say's exposition of the Smith system, shortly... | |
 | William Elder - Economics - 1882 - 352 pages
...Daniel Webster* said of Smith and his followers, " If I were to pick out with one hand all the^mere truisms, and with the other all the doubtful propositions, little would be left." And Napoleon Bonaparte, who forbade the publication of JB Say's exposition of the Smith system, shortly... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1887 - 272 pages
...volumes, from Adam Smith to Professor Dew ; and from the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all mere truisms, and with the other all the doubtful propositions, little would be left." Lord, kave Lord, have mercy upon me, a miserable '""' sinner. In my wretched physical and moral state,... | |
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science of political economy.' There is no such science. There are no rules on the subject so fixed and invariable as that their aggregate constitutes a science. 
