 | Adam Smith - 1817 - 776 pages
...which the attainment is well worth all the toil and anxiety which we are so apt to bestow upon it. And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner....cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonweaJths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish human... | |
 | 1974 - 184 pages
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 | 1924 - 702 pages
...life." 1 The " pleasures of wealth," it is true, are vastly exaggerated by the imagination ; but " it is well that Nature imposes upon us in this manner....keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind." 2 One more quotation will enable us, by the help of a phrase which reappears in the Wealth of Nations,... | |
 | 1924 - 812 pages
...life." 1 The " pleasures of wealth," it is true, are vastly exaggerated by the imagination ; but " it is well that Nature imposes upon us in this manner....keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind." 2 One more quotation will enable us, by the help of a phrase which reappears in the Wealth of Nations,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1925 - 622 pages
...Irregularity of Sentiments.' (Reprint, p. 96.) 8 Part III., ch. v. (Reprint, p. 146.) » Ibid. p. 147. us in this manner. It is this deception which rouses...keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.' 10 One more quotation will enable us, by the help of a phrase which reappears in the 'Wealth of Nations,'... | |
 | George Carpenter Ingelow - 1928 - 176 pages
...was an optimist, tnd regarded the scheme in its entirety as the one best suited to our needs. "And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner....keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. .... The earth by these labours of mankind has been obliged to redouble her natural fertility, and... | |
 | James Bonar - 1930 - 314 pages
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 | 1931 - 774 pages
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And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner. It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. 
