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Essais philosophiques, par feu Adam Smith, docteur en droit de la Société royale de Londres, de celle d'Edimbourg, etc. etc. précédés d'un précis de sa vie et de ses écrits par Dugald Stewart, de la Société royale d'Edimbourg. Traduits de l'anglais par P. Prévost, professeur de philosophie à Geneve, de l'Académie de Berlin, de la Société des curieux de la nature, et de la Société royale d'Edimbourg

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Adam Smith

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Pierre Prévost
translator
Henri Agasse
publisher

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is translation of
Essays on philosophical subjects. By the late Adam Smith, LL.D. Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, &c. &c. To which is prefixed, An account of the life and writings of the author, by Dugald Stewart, F.R.S.E. has translation
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Précis des écrits et de la vie d'Adam Smith translation

Notes

Smith's thinking contained many radical elements that were popular with the French radical movement. Reviewed in La Décade philosophique, 1797, vol. 3, p. 342. Review of Dugal Stewart's biography of Smith in Bibliothèque britannique, 1797, vol. 4, literature series, p. 149 and further.