Sketches of the History of Man: In Four Volumes, Volume 3United Company of Booksellers, 1775 - Civilization |
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... industry , advances felfifhnefs to be the ruling paffion , and brings on a timid anxiety about property and felf - prefervation . Cyrus , tho ' flaming with refent- ment against the Lydians for revolting , liftened to the following ...
... industry , advances felfifhnefs to be the ruling paffion , and brings on a timid anxiety about property and felf - prefervation . Cyrus , tho ' flaming with refent- ment against the Lydians for revolting , liftened to the following ...
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... industry among them , have totally extirpated depredations and reprisals , and have rendered them the most peaceable people in Scotland ; but have at the fame time reduced their military fpirit to a low ebb . To train them for war ...
... industry among them , have totally extirpated depredations and reprisals , and have rendered them the most peaceable people in Scotland ; but have at the fame time reduced their military fpirit to a low ebb . To train them for war ...
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... industry . Hufbandmen at the fame time make the beft foldiers : a military fpirit in the lower claffes arifes from bodily ftrength , and from affection to their natal foil both are eminent in the husbandman : conftant exercises in the ...
... industry . Hufbandmen at the fame time make the beft foldiers : a military fpirit in the lower claffes arifes from bodily ftrength , and from affection to their natal foil both are eminent in the husbandman : conftant exercises in the ...
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... industry . But the original bar- rennefs of Switzerland , compelled the inhabitants to be fober and industrious : and industry hath among them become a fecond nature , there fcarcely being a child above fix years of age but who is ...
... industry . But the original bar- rennefs of Switzerland , compelled the inhabitants to be fober and industrious : and industry hath among them become a fecond nature , there fcarcely being a child above fix years of age but who is ...
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... industry : the Swifs , it is true , may be termed induftrious ; but their industry is confined to neceffaries and convenien- cies : they are less ambitious of wealth than of military glory ; and they have few arts or manufactures ...
... industry : the Swifs , it is true , may be termed induftrious ; but their industry is confined to neceffaries and convenien- cies : they are less ambitious of wealth than of military glory ; and they have few arts or manufactures ...
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Page 139 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 140 - And this principally raises my esteem of these fables, which I receive, not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times, that from the traditions of more ancient nations came, at length, into the flutes and trumpets of the Greeks.
Page 192 - Burgerfdick, after enumerating five claffes of modal fyllogifms, obferves, that they require many rules and cautions, which Ariftotle hath handled diligently ; but that as the ufe of them is not great and their rules difficult, he thinks it not worth while to enter into the difcuflion of them ; recommending to thofe who would underftand them, the moft learned paraphrafe of Joannes Monlorius upon the firft book of the Firft Analytics.
Page 195 - The form lies in the neceffary connection between the premifes and the conclufion ; and where fuch a connection is wanting, they are faid to be informal, or vicious in point of form. But where there is no fault in the form, there may be in the matter ; that is, in the propofitions of which they are compofed, which may be true or falfe, probable or improbable.
Page 60 - But of ell, the moft deplorable effect of a great city, is the preventing of population, by fhortening the lives of its inhabitants. Does a capital fwell in proportion to the numbers that are drained from the country? Far from it. The air of a populous city is infected by multitudes crouded together; and people there feldom make out the ufual time of life.
Page 207 - ... definitions, divifion, or method. To aid our rational powers, in avoiding thefe faults and in attaining the oppofite excellencies, is the end of logic ; and whatever there is in it that has no tendency to promote this end, ought to be thrown out. The rules of logic being of a very...
Page 211 - ... that while he was certain that he doubted, and reafoned, he was uncertain whether two and three made five, and whether he was dreaming or awake. It is more ftrange, that fo acute a reafoner fhould not perceive, that his whole train of reafoning to prove that his faculties were not fallacious, was mere...
Page 188 - By obfervation, and experiments properly conducted, the ftock of human knowledge may be enlarged without end ; but the power of reafoning alone, applied with vigour through a long life, would only carry a man round, like a horfe in a mill, who labours hard, but makes no progrefs. There is indeed an exception to this obfervation in the mathematical fciences.
Page 201 - Its profefled end is, to teach men to think, to judge, and to reafon, with precifion and accuracy. No man will fay that this is a matter of no importance ; the only thing therefore that admits of doubt, is, whether it can be taught. To refolve this doubt, it may be obferved, that our •rational faculty is the gift of God, given to men in very different meafure.
Page 175 - To know all the poflible modes of fyllogifm, we muft find how many different combinations may be made of thre"e out of the four vowels ; and from the art of combination the number is found to be fixtyfour.