 | 1817 - 292 sider
...frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part 'of men are necessarily formed hy their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life...in performing a few simple operations, of which the eifects ate always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or... | |
 | 1832 - 952 sider
...(.•renter part of uicn are necessarily formed bythi'ir ordinary vmployments. The man whose whole life ia spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the наше, or very nearly the ваше, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his... | |
 | 1832 - 816 sider
...whole life is spent in per' forming a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, per' haps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to * out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He ' naturally loses, therefore, the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 sider
...frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed liy their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life...spent in performing a few simple operations, of which uic effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly tin- same, has no occasion to exert his... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 sider
...simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....same, has no occasion to exert his understanding- ,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedients/or removing difficulties which never occur.... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 506 sider
...simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understandmg,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedientsTor removing difficulties which... | |
 | 1843 - 948 sider
...simple operations, frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses,... | |
 | 1843 - 454 sider
...greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole Jife is spent in performing a few simple operations, of...very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 sider
...how much longer is it? L BARROW 384. EFFECTS OF A LIFE OF LABOUR ON THE UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE POOR. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 870 sider
...simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men arc necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....in performing a few simple operations, of which the cllects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding... | |
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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. 
