 | George Henry Lewes - 1867 - 692 páginas
...Adam Smith couM publicly write of him, ' Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both during his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly w* and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frail'.1 will permit.' § II. HUME'S SCEPTICISM.... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 páginas
...Human Understanding. After describing the nobility of Hume's manner as he died, Smith praised him for "approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit."21 Such praise of a philosopher widely suspected of atheism was apparently... | |
 | Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter - 1993 - 260 páginas
...autobiography. If David Hume felt such a warning to be necessary, a man who, according to Adam Smith, approached "as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit," it is hardly to be expected that my lectures will be free from vanity.... | |
 | Robin Paul Malloy, Jerry Evensky - 1994 - 250 páginas
...behavior of our late excellent friend, Mr. [David] Hume, during his last illness ....' Smith concludes: 'Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both...perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' (Smith, 1977, pps. 217, 221) Due to human frailty it is a point beyond... | |
 | Thomas V. Morris - 1994 - 298 páginas
...compassionate individual. Adam Smith, in a letter to William Strachan (November 1776), writes about Hume: Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both...perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. At the same time, it has also been said about Hume that his vanity to... | |
 | Albert William Levi - 1995 - 188 páginas
...learning, the greatest depth of thought. . . Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in this lifetime, and since his death, as approaching as nearly...perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will admit." Chesterfield too would have deeply approved Hume's "good nature and good... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 páginas
...nature never weakened either the firmness of his mind, or the steadiness of his resolutions. . . . Upon the whole, I have always considered him. both...perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will admit.27 His autobiography was published the year after his death, as were two... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 páginas
...and died there in 1776. His friend, Adam Smith, who was with him during his last days, described Hume "as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." (Smith's encomium outraged his religiously orthodox contemporaries,... | |
 | David Hume - 1998 - 396 páginas
...balanced . . . than that perhaps of any other man I have ever known. ... I have always considered him ... as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' The public was shocked at this praise of an atheist and sceptic, and... | |
 | Margaret Atherton - 1999 - 288 páginas
...the slightest tincture of malignity . . . And the gaiety of temper, so agreeable in society, . . . was in him certainly attended with the most severe...perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." (Dialogues, 247-48) Selected Bibliography The following are monographs... | |
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... qualities, which contributed more to endear his conversation. And that gaiety of temper, so agreeable in society, but which is so often accompanied with frivolous and superficial qualities, was in him certainly attended with the most severe application,... 
