Sketches of the History of Man: In Two Volumes, Volume 2W. Creech, 1774 - Civilization |
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... lefs effeminate , who fight for pay , not for the ftate they ferve .. Benjamin de Tudele , a Spanish Jew , who wrote in the twelfth cen- tury , reports , that the Greeks , by luxury and effeminacy , had contracted a degree of foftness ...
... lefs effeminate , who fight for pay , not for the ftate they ferve .. Benjamin de Tudele , a Spanish Jew , who wrote in the twelfth cen- tury , reports , that the Greeks , by luxury and effeminacy , had contracted a degree of foftness ...
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... lefs qualified for the arts of peace ; and if manufacturers be protected from being obliged to ferve in the army , I discover not any incompatibility between a stand- ing army and the highest industry . Husbandmen at the fame time make ...
... lefs qualified for the arts of peace ; and if manufacturers be protected from being obliged to ferve in the army , I discover not any incompatibility between a stand- ing army and the highest industry . Husbandmen at the fame time make ...
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... lefs fuccefsful , by rendering Britain fo poor as fcarce to be a tempting conqueft . Our late war with France is a confpicuous inftance of the power that can be exerted by a com- mercial ftate , entire in its credit ; a power that amaz ...
... lefs fuccefsful , by rendering Britain fo poor as fcarce to be a tempting conqueft . Our late war with France is a confpicuous inftance of the power that can be exerted by a com- mercial ftate , entire in its credit ; a power that amaz ...
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... lefs unjust than imprudent , to disband at once our prefent army , the soft and natural way is , to begin with moulding gradually the old army into the new , by filling up vacancies with men bound to ferve fe- ven years and no longer ...
... lefs unjust than imprudent , to disband at once our prefent army , the soft and natural way is , to begin with moulding gradually the old army into the new , by filling up vacancies with men bound to ferve fe- ven years and no longer ...
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... lefs fplendid , was difplay'd by the Fatemite Califs of Egypt . After re- turning from a fuccefsful expedition , the Calif pitched his camp in a spacious plain near his capital , where he was attended by all his grandees , in their ...
... lefs fplendid , was difplay'd by the Fatemite Califs of Egypt . After re- turning from a fuccefsful expedition , the Calif pitched his camp in a spacious plain near his capital , where he was attended by all his grandees , in their ...
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