 | Edwin Cannan - 1927 - 468 頁
...in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally...those two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant in which any man is so completely satisfied with his situation as to be without any wish of... | |
 | John Storck - 1927 - 462 頁
...progress of England towards opulence and improvement . . . [The desire to better our condition is one] which, though, generally calm and dispassionate, comes...and never leaves us till we go into the grave. In this view Malthus also concurs, for he states that to the laws of property and marriage, and to the... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1928 - 410 頁
...the founder of our science. "The principle which prompts to save," says Adam Smith, "is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally...comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till vie go into the grave. In the whole interval which separates those two moments there is scarce perhaps... | |
 | Joel Jay Kassiola - 1990 - 320 頁
...the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which thought generally calm and dispassionate comes with us from...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave [compare this to Hobbes on the idea that it is only with death that the competitive urges cease]. In... | |
 | Conrad Waligorski - 1990 - 280 頁
...York: Modern Library, 1965), p. 508. See also p. 324: "[Tjhe desire of bettering our condition . . . comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." 21. See Friedrich A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 頁
...every man is continually making to better his own condition," of that desire for amelioration which "comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." This, he argued, was "a principle . . . capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity,"... | |
 | Christopher Herbert - 1991 - 374 頁
...condition" (WN 2:49). H This "desire of bettering our condition" is, he says, "a desire which . . . comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave" (WAT 1:362-63). The proposition that compulsive desire lies at the base of social life goes back at... | |
 | Henry William Spiegel - 1991 - 904 頁
...Smith's economics of self-reliance is grounded in "the desire of bettering our condition," a desire that "comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." To realize this desire, some will fawn upon their fellowmen and others will expect assistance from... | |
 | Pierre Guillet de Monthoux - 1993 - 332 頁
...self-betterment that continues throughout life: "[T]he principle which prompts us to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally...the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave."35 It is this deep and usually calm propensity that allows people to overcome the casual hazards... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 664 頁
...inferred from the activities of men. One could and should count upon: (a) the universal "desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally...the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave";61 and (b) "the obvious and simple system of natural liberty" which would establish itself of... | |
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With regard to profusion, the principle which prompts to expense is the passion for present enjoyment; which, though sometimes violent and very difficult to be restrained, is in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to... 
