 ... 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 - Էջ viiiThomas Green Fessenden - 1822 - 427 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 էջ
...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... | |
 | Schmoller - 1875 - 222 էջ
...spent in performing a few simple operations has no occasion to exert his understandig. He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, — it corrupts even... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1875 - 546 էջ
...of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or taking a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment,... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1875 - 556 էջ
...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 being to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or taking a part... | |
 | Poor law conference - 1878 - 396 էջ
...has no necessity to call into play his powers of invention. What is the result ? The man generally becomes as " stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." Wherever we find stupidity and ignorance supreme, there we find also an undue proportion of pauperism.... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 564 էջ
...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. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 542 էջ
...difficulties which never occur, lie 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. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 548 էջ
...which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes aa stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 էջ
...loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it i* possible for a human creature to become. The torpor...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving »ny generous, noble, or tender sentiment, ind consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
 | 1886 - 414 էջ
...to exercise his invention. 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. But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the laboring poor, that is,... | |
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