 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 ページ
...and to consider only such causes as have visible foundations in nature ; leaving those that depend on the mutable minds, opinions, appetites, and passions of particular men to the consideration of others Now, the observations or positions expressed by number, weight, and measure, upon which I bottom the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 496 ページ
...and to consider only such causes as have visible foundations in nature ; leaving those that depend on the mutable minds, opinions, appetites, and passions of particular men to the consideration of others Now, the observations or positions expressed by number, weight, and measure, upon which I bottom the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 ページ
...and to consider only such causes as have visible foundations in nature ; leaving those that depend on the mutable minds, opinions, appetites, and passions of particular men to the consideration of others Now, the observations or positions expressed by number, weight, and measure, upon which I bottom the... | |
 | 1868 - 656 ページ
...Arithmetic ; or, Discourse concerning the Extent and Value of Lands, People, Buildings, Husbandry," &c., " I have taken the course (as a specimen of the political...of particular men to the consideration of others." When this was written, probably about 1680, it was a great innovation and discovery to despise the... | |
 | 1868 - 658 ページ
...Arithmetic ; or, Discourse concerning the Extent and Value of Lands, People, Buildings, Husbandry," &c., " I have taken the course (as a specimen of the political...of particular men to the consideration of others." When this was written, probably about 1680, it was a great innovation and discovery to despise the... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1872 - 642 ページ
...only such causes as have visible foundations in nature, leaving thus what depends upon the unstable minds, opinions, appetites, and passions of particular men, to the consideration of others.' Statistics were thus early recognised as a means of verifying the conclusions and deductions of political... | |
 | 1883 - 856 ページ
...usual, for instead of using " only comparative and superlative words and intellectual argu" ments, I have taken the course (as a specimen of the political...of particular men to the consideration of " others ;" and on p. 98 of his " Several Essays " he says, " I intend " to express myself in terms of number,... | |
 | Vincenz John - 1884 - 404 ページ
...könne nicht geringer ') »The Method I take to this, is not yet very usual ; ibr instead of nsing only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual...of particular Men, to the Consideration of others." sein als der Lohn, welcher der ärmsten Dienstmagd auf dem Lande gegeben wird, dh 30 Shilling jährlich;... | |
 | American Economic Association - 1894 - 680 ページ
...consider "such causes as have visible foundations in nature." He does not intend to consider those causes "that depend upon the mutable minds, opinions, appetites, and passions of particular men." And again, he states that he only uses "arguments of sense."1 This gives his conception of nature.... | |
 | Sir William Petty, John Graunt - 1899 - 420 ページ
...taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetick I have longed aimed at) to express my self in terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only...to the Consideration of others : Really professing my self as unable to speak satisfactorily upon those Grounds (if they may be call'd Grounds), as to... | |
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I have long aimed at) to express my self in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature; leaving those that depend upon the mutable Minds, Opinions, Appetites,... 
