Essays on Philosophical Subjects, including Moral Sentiments
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- anglais
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- Volume ; étendue en cours de vérification
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- ~250 000 mots · 1 209 passages
The 1872 volume includes The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the philosophical essays, as well as a biographical notice and advertisements. The Advertisement to the Sixth Edition is Smith’s; the Advertisement by the Editors is by Black and Hutton.
- Dugald Stewart — source of abridged biographical notice
- Joseph Black — editor, Advertisement by the Editors
- James Hutton — editor, Advertisement by the Editors
Citer cette œuvre
- APAAdam Smith. (1872). Essays on Philosophical Subjects, including Moral Sentiments. Alex. Murray & Co., London. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith
- MLAAdam Smith. Essays on Philosophical Subjects, including Moral Sentiments. Alex. Murray & Co., London, 1872. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith.
- ChicagoAdam Smith. Essays on Philosophical Subjects, including Moral Sentiments. Alex. Murray & Co., London, 1872. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/adam-smith/the-essays-of-adam-smith.
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De quoi il s'agit
The 1872 volume includes The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the philosophical essays, as well as a biographical notice and advertisements. The Advertisement to the Sixth Edition is Smith’s; the Advertisement by the Editors is by Black and Hutton.
Contexte et histoire
Composite 1872 volume: an abridged biographical notice derived from Dugald Stewart, Smith’s Advertisement to the Sixth Edition, the Advertisement by Joseph Black and James Hutton, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the philosophical essays. Do not conflate the two advertisements. Duplication with the separate Moral Sentiments entry is visible; retrieval duplication has not been measured.
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powers of his memory. His weakness of body prevented him joining in athletic sports, but his generous and friendly temperament made him a favourite with his schoolmates; and he was noted then, as through after life, for absence in company and a habit of speaking to himself when alone. From the grammar school of Kirkaldy, he was sent, in 1737, to the University of Glasgow, whence, in 1740, he went to Baliol College, Oxford, enjoying an exhibition on the Snell foundation. When at Glasgow College, his favourite studies were mathematics and natural philosophy, but that did not long divert his mind from pursuits more congenial to him, more particularly the political history of mankind, which gave scope to the power of his comprehensive genius, and gratified his ruling passion of contributing to the happiness and the improvement of society. To his early taste for Greek generally, may be due the clearness and fulness with which he states his political reasonings. At Oxford he employed himself frequently in the practice of translation, with a view to the improvement of his own style, and used to commend such exercises to all who cultivate the art of composition. He also cultivated with the greatest care the study of languages; and his knowledge of them led him to a peculiar experience in everything that could illustrate the institutions, the manners, and the ideas of different ages and nations. …