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Source: The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Complete in One Volume
Source: History of the Revolution in England in 1688: Comprising a View of the Reign of James II. from His Accession, to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange
Source: Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh
Source: Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Complete in One Volume
Source: A general view of the progress of ethical philosophy: chiefly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
“The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh
Source: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh
“It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.”
“Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.”
Source: Vindiciae Gallicae
“The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.”
“The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.”
“The frivolous work of polished idleness.”
Source: On the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries