 No other sovereigns ever were, or, from the nature of things, ever could be, so perfectly indifferent about the happiness or misery of their subjects, the improvement or waste of their dominions, the glory or disgrace of their administration; as, from...  History of Great Britain, from the Revolution, 1688, to the Concluding of ... - Page 207by William Belsham - 1805Full view - About this book
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 632 pages
...happiness or misery of their subjects, the improvement or waste of their dominions, the glory ondisgrace of their administration, as from irresistible moral...sovereign but as an appendix to that of the merchant j as something which ought to be made subservient to it ; or by means of which they may be enabled... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 514 pages
...him a share, he seldom cares at all. No other sovereigns ever were, or, from the nature of things, ever could be, so perfectly indifferent about the...from irresistible moral causes, the greater part of the proprietors of such a mercantile company are, and necessarily must be. This indifference, too,... | |
 | Matthew Stewart - Great Britain - 1831 - 140 pages
...* * ' No other sovereigns ever were, * or, from the nature of things, ever could be, so per' fectly indifferent about the happiness or misery of ' their...their ' dominions ; the glory or disgrace of their administra' tion ; as, from irresistible moral causes, the greater ' part of the proprietors of such... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...sovereigns ever were, or, from the nature of things, ever cou Id be, so perfectly indifferent about the or misery of their subjects, the improvement or waste...their administration, as, from irresistible moral cause«, the greater part of the proprietors of sucli a mercantile company are, and neces->arily must... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...him a share, he seldom cares at all. No other sovereigns ever were, or, from the nature of things, ever could be, so perfectly indifferent about the...from irresistible moral causes, the greater part of the proprietors of such a mercantile company are, and necessarily must be. This indifference too was... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...gives him a share, he seldom cares at nil. No other sovereigns ever were or, from the nature of things, ever could be, so perfectly indifferent about the...from irresistible moral causes, the greater part of the proprietors of such a mercantile company are, and necessarily must be. This indifference too was... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1884 - 604 pages
...indifferent al>out the happiness WEALTH OF NATIONS. BOOK or misery of their subjects, the improvement иг waste of their dominions, the glory or disgrace of...from irresistible moral causes, the greater part of the proprietors of such a mercantile company are, and necessarily must be. This indifference, too,... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - Economists - 1887 - 196 pages
...him a share, he seldom cares at all. No other sovereigns ever were, or, from the nature of things, ever could be, so perfectly indifferent about the...from irresistible moral causes, the greater part of the proprietors of such a mercantile company are, and necessarily must be." The next branch of the... | |
 | John Rae - Business & Economics - 1895 - 484 pages
...introduced he declared of them that " no other sovereigns ever were, or, from the nature of things, ever could be, so perfectly indifferent about the...from irresistible moral causes, the greater part of the proprietors of such a mercantile company are and necessarily must be." 1 Journals and Correspondence... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - American literature - 1897 - 314 pages
...Nations, Book IV. chap. vii.). And again : ' No other sovereigns ever were, or from the nature of things could be, so perfectly indifferent about the happiness...from irresistible moral causes, the greater part of the proprietors of such a mercantile company are and must necessarily be.' \ The first step in the... | |
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