 A private teacher could never find his account in teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of a science acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally believed to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry and nonsense. Such systems,...  Essays on the Endowment of Research - Pagina 681876 - 278 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 pagini
...fashionable, to learn. A private teacher could never find his account in teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of a science acknowledged to be...for education, whose prosperity and revenue are in a great measure independent of their reputation, and altogether independent of their industry. Were... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1827 - 218 pagini
...fashionable to learn. A private teacher could never find his account in teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of a science acknowledged to be...for education, whose prosperity and revenue are in a great measure independent of their reputation, and altogether independent of their industry. Were... | |
 | William Draper - 1830 - 44 pagini
...acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally be• Io ni Boliogbroke— On the Stud/ of History, lieved to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry...nonsense. Such systems, such sciences, can subsist no where but in those incorporated societies for education whose prosperity and revenue are, in great... | |
 | 1833 - 564 pagini
...fashionabk to learn. A private teacher could never find his account in teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of a science acknowledged to be...useless and pedantic heap of sophistry and nonsense." — Wealth of Nations, book v. ch. 1, p. 3. The principle which Adam Smith here lays down is strictly... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pagini
...acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally be• tort BoliogbrolK— On Ihc Study of Hutorr. lieved to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry...nonsense. Such systems, such sciences, can subsist no where but in those incorporated socie* ties for education whose prosperity and revenue are, in great... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pagini
...acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally be• Lord Bolingbroke— On the Stmly of History. lieved to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry...nonsense. Such systems, such sciences, can subsist no where but in those incorporated societies for education whose prosperity and revenue are, in great... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pagini
...acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally be• Lord Boliogbrok*— On the Study o( Hi.tory. lieved to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry...nonsense. Such systems, such sciences, can subsist no where but in those incorporated societies for education whose prosperity and revenue are, in great... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 374 pagini
...learn. A private teacher could never find his account in teaching either an VOL. XVII. H exploded and antiquated system of a science acknowledged to be...for education, whose prosperity and revenue are in a great measure independent of their reputation, and altogether independent of their industry. Were... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 224 pagini
...fashionable to learn. A private teacher could never find his account in teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of a science acknowledged to be...and pedantic heap of sophistry and nonsense. Such sciences, such systems, can subsist nowhere but in those incorporated societies for education, whose... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 326 pagini
...fashionable to learn. A private teacher could never find his account in teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of a science acknowledged to be...and pedantic heap of sophistry and nonsense. Such sciences, such systems, can subsist nowhere but in those incorporated societies for education, whose... | |
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