An Essay on the History of Civil SocietyT. Cadell, in the Strand, and A. Kincaid, W. Creech, and J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1773 - 466 sider |
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... body , are to be con- fidered as fo many attributes of his nature : they are to be retained in his defcription , as the wing and the paw are in that of the eagle and the lion , and as different degrees of fiercenefs , vigilance , ti ...
... body , are to be con- fidered as fo many attributes of his nature : they are to be retained in his defcription , as the wing and the paw are in that of the eagle and the lion , and as different degrees of fiercenefs , vigilance , ti ...
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... body of laws ; or naked in the woods has no badge of fuperiority but the strength of his limbs and the fagacity of his mind ; no rule of conduct but choice ; no tie with his fellow creatures but affection , the love of company , and the ...
... body of laws ; or naked in the woods has no badge of fuperiority but the strength of his limbs and the fagacity of his mind ; no rule of conduct but choice ; no tie with his fellow creatures but affection , the love of company , and the ...
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... bodies ; fo , " on the other , I have my talent in writing , infe- " rior perhaps only to thofe who inhabit the great cities of Perfia or India . Of other nations , un- known to me , I do not speak . ” * Abulgaze Bahadur Chan .; Hiftory ...
... bodies ; fo , " on the other , I have my talent in writing , infe- " rior perhaps only to thofe who inhabit the great cities of Perfia or India . Of other nations , un- known to me , I do not speak . ” * Abulgaze Bahadur Chan .; Hiftory ...
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... body , if we break that body into parts , and confine the obfervation of each to a separate track ? T I To act in the view of his fellow - creatures , to produce his mind in public , to give it all the ex- ercife of fentiment and ...
... body , if we break that body into parts , and confine the obfervation of each to a separate track ? T I To act in the view of his fellow - creatures , to produce his mind in public , to give it all the ex- ercife of fentiment and ...
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... elevation of mind . " The event of the day is decided . Draw this ja " velin from my body now , " faid Epaminondas , " and let me bleed . " IN In what fituation , or by what inftruction , is 64 Part I. Of Moral Sentiment .
... elevation of mind . " The event of the day is decided . Draw this ja " velin from my body now , " faid Epaminondas , " and let me bleed . " IN In what fituation , or by what inftruction , is 64 Part I. Of Moral Sentiment .
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Side 25 - 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 8 - The latest efforts of human invention are but a continuation of certain devices which were practised in the earliest ages of the world, and in the rudest state of mankind. What the savage projects, or observes, in the forest, are the steps which led nations, more advanced, from the architecture of the cottage to that of the palace, and conducted the human mind from the perceptions of sense, to the general conclusions of science.
Side 33 - Without the rivalship of nations, and the practice of war, civil society itself could scarcely have found an object, or a form. Mankind might have traded without any formal convention, but they cannot be safe without a national concert. The necessity of a public defence, has given rise to many departments of state, and the intellectual talents of men have found their busiest scene in wielding their national forces.
Side 84 - To the ancient Greek, or the Roman, the individual was nothing, and the public every thing. To the modern, in too many nations of Europe, the individual is every thing, and the public nothing.
Side 7 - 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 300 - Those establishments arose from successive improvements that were made, without any sense of their general effect; and they bring human affairs to a state of complication, which the greatest reach of capacity with which human nature was ever adorned, could not have projected; nor even when the whole is carried into execution, can it be comprehended in its full extent.
Side 420 - It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
Side 183 - ... required in the conduct of civil affairs. It was indeed in the torrid zone that mere arts of mechanism and manufacture were found, among the inhabitants of the new world, to have made the greatest advance; it is in India, and in the regions of this hemisphere, which are visited by the vertical sun, that the arts of manufacture, and the practice of commerce, are of the greatest antiquity, and have survived, with the smallest diminution, the ruins of time, and the revolutions of empire.
Side 302 - 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 4 - ... being, to invent and contrive. He applies the same talents to a variety of purposes, and acts nearly the same part in very different scenes. He would be always improving on his subject, and he carries this intention wherever he moves, through the streets of the populous city, or the wilds of the forest. While he appears equally fitted to every condition, he is upon this account unable to settle in any.