 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...taught, for which there was not some demand, or which the circumstances of the times did not render it either necessary or convenient, or at least fashionable,...useful, or a science universally believed to be a mere useless and pedantic . heap of sophistry and nonsense. Such systems, such sciences, can subsist nowhere... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 542 pages
...cumftances of the times did not render it either neceffary, or convenient, or at leaft fafhionable, to learn. A private teacher could never find his account in teaching, either an exploded and antiquated fyftem of a fcience acknowledged to be ufeful, or a fcience univerfally believed to be a mere ufelefs... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Education - 1827 - 218 pages
...taught, for which there was not some demand, or which the circumstances of the time did not render it either necessary, or convenient, or at least fashionable...useful, or a science universally believed to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry and nonsense. Such systems, such sciences can subsist nowhere... | |
 | William Draper - Economics - 1830 - 44 pages
...institutions for education, no system, no science could be taught for which there was not some demand. A private teacher could never find his account in...teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of science acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally be• Io ni Boliogbroke— On the Stud/... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 564 pages
...circumstances of the times did not render it either necessary, or convenient, or at least fashionabk to learn. A private teacher could never find his account...useful, or a science universally believed to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry and nonsense." — Wealth of Nations, book v. ch. 1, p. 3. The... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...institutions for education, no system, no science could be taught for which there was not some demand. A private teacher could never find his account in...teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of science acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally be* Lord Bolinjbroke— On tie Study of... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...institutions for education, no system, no science could be taught for which there was not some demand. A private teacher could never find his account in...teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of science acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally be• Lord Bolingbroke— On the Stmly... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...institutions for education, no system, no science could be taught for which there was not some demand. A private teacher could never find his account in...teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of science acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally be• Lord Boliogbrok*— On the Study... | |
 | Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 330 pages
...taught, for which there was not some demand, or which the circumstances of the time did not render it either necessary or convenient, or at least fashionable...useful, or a science universally believed to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry and nonsense. Such sciences, such systems, can subsist nowhere... | |
 | Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 326 pages
...taught, for which there was not some demand, or which the circumstances of the time did not render it either necessary or convenient, or at least fashionable...useful, or a science universally believed to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry and nonsense. Such sciences, such systems, can subsist nowhere... | |
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... or convenient, or at least fashionable, to learn. A private teacher could never find his account in teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of a science acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally believed to be a mere useless and... 
