 | Christina Petsoulas - 2001 - Страниц: 220
...prejudices of the people ... When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear'. The end of every government, Smith maintains, is to promote the happiness of its people.17 It can achieve... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - Страниц: 260
...people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - Страниц: 442
...people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. (TMS, VI. ii. 2.i 6) If "public spirit" is not a spirit of "system," Smith is equally clear that it... | |
 | Svetozar Minkov, Stéphane Douard - 2006 - Страниц: 416
...moderating, what he often cannot annihilate without great violence." Smith compares this worthy to Solon: "when he cannot establish the best system of...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear" (VI.ii.16, 233). 2S This is clearly a counsel of moderation, a warning to potential political leaders... | |
 | Samuel Gregg - 2007 - Страниц: 200
...prejudices of the people.... When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain tc ameliorate the wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavor to establish the best that the people can bear.64 Not all governments pursuing redistributist... | |
 | Dennis Carl Rasmussen - 2010 - Страниц: 208
...annihilate without great violence When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear" (TMS VI. ii. 2.16, 233; see also WN IV.vb-53, 543). A good citizen, for Smith, should respect the government... | |
 | W. Cunningham - 2017 - Страниц: 232
...Stewart, Life of Adam Smith in Works, vol. xp 68. establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong ; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear1. Adam Smith was clear that by the comparison of other polities the condition of a country might... | |
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When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish • the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. 
