An Essay on the History of Civil SocietyA. Millar and T. Cadell, 1768 - 430 sider |
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Side 34
... arise from an oppofition of intereft . Human nature has part of its character , of which more flagrant examples are given on this fide of the globe . What is it that stirs in the breasts of ordinary men when the enemies of their country ...
... arise from an oppofition of intereft . Human nature has part of its character , of which more flagrant examples are given on this fide of the globe . What is it that stirs in the breasts of ordinary men when the enemies of their country ...
Side 104
... arise in the diftribution of property ; and the defire of pre - eminence becomes the predominant passion . Every rank would exercife its prerogative , and the fove- reign reign is perpetually tempted to enlarge his own ; if 104 Part I ...
... arise in the diftribution of property ; and the defire of pre - eminence becomes the predominant passion . Every rank would exercife its prerogative , and the fove- reign reign is perpetually tempted to enlarge his own ; if 104 Part I ...
Side 212
... arise from a disregard to numbers on the part of ftates . It is even probable , that the most effectual courfe that could be taken to increase the fpecies , would be , to prevent the coalition of nations , and to oblige mankind to act ...
... arise from a disregard to numbers on the part of ftates . It is even probable , that the most effectual courfe that could be taken to increase the fpecies , would be , to prevent the coalition of nations , and to oblige mankind to act ...
Side 214
... arise from regards to interest and personal fafety . They are intended for the benefit of those who cxift , not to procure the increase of their numbers . It is , in the mean time , of importance to know , that where a people are ...
... arise from regards to interest and personal fafety . They are intended for the benefit of those who cxift , not to procure the increase of their numbers . It is , in the mean time , of importance to know , that where a people are ...
Side 243
... arise on the head of his fortune ; he was educated , and he was employed for life in the service of the public ; he was fed at a place of common refort , to which he could carry no diftinction but that of his talents and his virtues ...
... arise on the head of his fortune ; he was educated , and he was employed for life in the service of the public ; he was fed at a place of common refort , to which he could carry no diftinction but that of his talents and his virtues ...
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Side 29 - It is here indeed, if ever, that man is sometimes found a detached and a solitary being: he has found an object which sets him in competition with his fellow-creatures, and he deals with them as he does with his cattle and his soil, for the sake of the profits they bring.
Side 37 - But it is vain to expect that we can give to the multitude of a people a sense of union among themselves, without admitting hostility to those who oppose them.
Side 12 - If we are asked therefore, where the state of nature is to be found? we may answer, it is here; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan.
Side 12 - If we admit that man is susceptible of improvement, and has in himself a principle of progression, and a desire of perfection, it appears improper to say, that he has quitted the state of his nature, when he has begun to proceed ; or that he finds a station for which he was not intended, while, like other animals, he only follows the disposition, and employs the powers that nature has given.
Side 281 - ... cultivated, while that of the inferior workman lies waste. The statesman may have a wide comprehension of human affairs, while the tools he employs are ignorant of the system in which they are themselves combined. The general officer may be a great proficient in the knowledge of war, while the soldier is confined to a few motions of the hand and the foot. The former may have gained, what the latter has lost...
Side 59 - ... precincts of a court, where we may learn to smile without being pleased, to caress without affection, to wound with the secret weapons of envy and jealousy, and to rest our personal importance on circumstances which we cannot always with honour command? No: but in a situation where the great sentiments of the heart are awakened; where the characters of men, not their situations and fortunes, are...
Side 280 - But if many parts in the practice of every art, and in the detail of every department, require no abilities, or actually tend to contract and to limit the views of the mind, there are others which lead to general reflections, and to enlargement of thought. Even in manufacture, the genius of the master, perhaps, is cultivated, while that of the inferior workman lies waste. The statesman may have a wide comprehension of human affairs, while the tools he employs are ignorant of the system in which they...
Side 14 - Man may mistake the objects of his pursuit; he may misapply his industry, and misplace his improvements. If under a sense of such possible errors, he would find a standard by which to judge of his own proceedings, and arrive at the best state of his nature, he cannot find it perhaps in the practice of any individual, or of any nation whatever; not even in the sense of the majority, or the prevailing opinion of his kind. He must look for it in the best conceptions of his understanding, in the best...
Side 256 - We must admire as the key-stone of civil liberty, the statute which forces the secrets of every prison to be revealed, the cause of every commitment to be declared, and the person of the accused to be produced, that he may claim his enlargement or his trial, within a limited time.
Side 24 - ... .MAN is born in fociety^" fays Montefquieu, " and ** there he remains." The charms that detain him are known to be manifold.