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England before he joined his relatives in Amsterdam. He became a partner with them, and on the death of Adrian Hope the conduct of the whole of the business of the firm devolved upon him. When the French invaded Holland in 1794 he retired to England. He died on 25th February, 1811, leaving £1,160,000 (Gentleman’s Magazine, March, 1811). ↩

Most modern editions are copied from the fourth edition. Thorold Rogers’ edition, however, though said in the preface to be copied from the fourth, as a matter of fact follows the third. In one instance, indeed, the omission of “so” before “as long as” here (in the present edition), Rogers’ text agrees with that of the fourth edition rather than the third, but this is an accidental coincidence in error; the error is a particularly easy one to make and it is actually corrected in the errata to the fourth edition, so that it is not really the reading of that edition. The fifth edition must not be confused with a spurious “fifth edition with additions” in 2 vols., 8vo, published in Dublin in 1793 with the “Advertisement” to the third edition deliberately falsified by the substitution of “fifth” for “third” in the sentence “To this third edition however I have made several additions.” It is perhaps the existence of this spurious “fifth edition” which has led several writers (e.g., Rae, Life of Adam Smith, p. 293) to ignore the genuine fifth edition. The sixth edition is dated 1791. ↩

Steuart’s Principles was “printed for A. Millar, and T. Cadell, in the Strand”: and the Wealth of Nations “for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand.” ↩

Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms, delivered in the University of Glasgow by Adam Smith. Reported by a student in 1763, and edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edwin Cannan, 1896, pp. 1, 3. ↩

Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms, pp. 3, 4. ↩

Lectures, p. 154. ↩

See James Bonar, Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith, 1894. ↩

Lectures, p. 157. ↩

Lectures, p. 154. ↩

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Lectures, pp. 211⁠–⁠19. ↩

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Lectures, pp. 246, 247. ↩

Lectures, pp. 247⁠–⁠52. ↩

Lectures, p. 261. ↩

Lectures, p. 263. ↩

There is a reminiscence of them in the chapter on Rent, here through here. ↩

See above, here. ↩

See below, here and here, for a conjecture on this subject. ↩

See this endnote. ↩

Dugald Stewart, in his “Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith,” read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1793 and published in Adam Smith’s posthumous Essays on Philosophical Subjects, 1795, p. xviii. See Rae, Life of Adam Smith, pp. 53⁠–⁠5. ↩

Rae, Life of Adam Smith, pp. 42⁠–⁠5. ↩

Stewart, in Smith’s Essays, pp. lxxx, lxxxi. ↩

Rae, Life of Adam Smith, pp. 43⁠–⁠4. ↩

W. R. Scott, Francis Hutcheson, 1900, pp. 210, 231. In the Introduction to Moral Philosophy, 1747, Civil Polity is replaced by “Œconomicks and Politicks,” but “Œconomicks” only means domestic law, i.e., the rights of husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and servants. ↩

System of Moral Philosophy, vol. i, pp. 288, 289. ↩

System of Moral Philosophy, vol. i, pp. 319⁠–⁠21. ↩

System of Moral Philosophy, vol. ii, p. 58. ↩

System of Moral Philosophy, vol. ii, pp. 62, 63. ↩

System of Moral Philosophy, pp. 71⁠–⁠2. ↩

System of Moral Philosophy, vol. ii, p. 73. ↩

System of Moral Philosophy, vol. ii, pp. 318⁠–⁠21. ↩

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