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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...

ocean a new fund of subsistence, and the great high road of communication to the dif|ferent nations of the earth. The earth by these labours of mankind has been obliged to redouble her natural fertility, and to maintain a greater multitude of inhabitants. It is to no purpose, that the proud and unfeeling land|lord views his extensive fields, and without a thought for the wants of his brethren, in ima|gination consumes himself the whole harvest that grows upon them. The homely and vulgar proverb, that the eye is larger than the belly, never was more fully verified than with regard to him. The capacity of his sto|mach bears no proportion to the immensity of his desires, and will receive no more than that of the meanest peasant. The rest he is obliged to distribute among those, who pre|pare, in the nicest manner, that little which he himself makes use of, among those who fit up the palace in which this little is to be con|sumed, among those who provide and keep in order all the different baubles and trinkets, which are employed in the oeconomy of great|ness; all of whom thus derive from his luxu|ry and caprice, that share of the necessaries of life, which they would in vain have ex|pected from his humanity or his justice. The
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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
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London :: printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh,
1759.

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