At 15:09 26/12/2006, michael wrote:
Smith, Adam. 1762/3-1766. Lectures on Jurisprudence, eds. R. L.
Meek, D. D. Raphael,
and P. G. Stein (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1978).
224: classical disdain for commerce. in the Odessy, Ulysses asked
whether he was a
merchant or a pirate, says the latter since is was seen as more
honorable: Odessy ix:
253-5. his son also asked, iii, 72-74; see also Thucydides, I. 5.1-2.
As in Woody Guthrie's 'some men rob you with a fountain pen....'
m
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