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" He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. "
The History of Civilisation in Scotland - Page 58
by John Mackintosh - 1896 - 495 pages
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The Edinburgh Observer: Or, Town and Country Magazine, Issues 1-11

1817 - 292 pages
...frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part 'of men are necessarily formed hy their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life...in performing a few simple operations, of which the eifects ate always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or...
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The Schoolmaster, and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine, Volumes 1-2

Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...(.•renter part of uicn are necessarily formed bythi'ir ordinary vmployments. The man whose whole life ia spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the наше, or very nearly the ваше, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his...
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The Eclectic Review

1832 - 816 pages
...whole life is spent in per' forming a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, per' haps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to * out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He ' naturally loses, therefore, the...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed liy their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life...spent in performing a few simple operations, of which uic effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly tin- same, has no occasion to exert his...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With a comm ...

Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....same, has no occasion to exert his understanding- ,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedients/or removing difficulties which never occur....
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 4

Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1843 - 506 pages
...simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understandmg,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedientsTor removing difficulties which...
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The English Journal of Education ..., Volume 1, Issue 1 - Volume 3, Issue 5

1843 - 948 pages
...simple operations, frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses,...
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The English Journal of Education, Volume 1

1843 - 454 pages
...greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole Jife is spent in performing a few simple operations, of...very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses,...
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Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...how much longer is it? L BARROW 384. EFFECTS OF A LIFE OF LABOUR ON THE UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE POOR. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for...
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 870 pages
...simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men arc necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....in performing a few simple operations, of which the cllects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding...
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