 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 356 páginas
...than in that of any period of the same extent, in the annals of Europe. " But there is an ultimate point of depression, as well as of exaltation, from...which human affairs naturally return, in a contrary progress, and beyond which they seldom pass, either in their advancement or decline." When defects,... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 546 páginas
...scene of wretchedness and oppression. But, according to Hume's just observation f, there is an ultimate point of depression, as well as of exaltation, from...which human affairs naturally return in a contrary progress, and beyond * Here the writer must take his final leave of Mr. Charles O'Conor, from whom... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 544 páginas
...scene of wretchedness and oppression. But, according to Hume's just observation f, there is an ultimate point of depression, as well as of exaltation, from...which human affairs naturally return in a contrary progress, and beyond * Here the writer must take his final leave of Mr. Charles O'Conor, from whom... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 386 páginas
...deeper into ignorance, stupidity, and superstition ; till the light of ancient science and history had very nearly suffered a total extinction in all the...return in a contrary direction, and beyond which they seldom pass either in their advancement or decline. The period in which the people of Christendom were... | |
 | William Robertson - 1829 - 628 páginas
...belief. But, according to the observation of an elegant and profound historian,* there is an ultimate point of depression, as well as of exaltation, from...which human affairs naturally return in a contrary progress, and beyond which they never pass either in their advancement or decline. When defects, either... | |
 | George Browning (of London.) - 1834 - 702 páginas
...qualities which once distinguished them above the other nations of the earth. But there is a certain point of depression, as well as of exaltation, from...return in a contrary direction, and beyond which they seldom pass, either in their decline or advancement. Thus we contemplate the states of ancient Greece... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1835 - 1294 páginas
...observation of an elegant and profound historian,' there is an ultimate point of depresmprove, sion, as well as of exaltation, from which human affairs naturally return in a contrary progress, and beyond which they never pass either in their advancement or decline. When defects, either... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...deeper into ignorance, stupidity, and superstition ; till the light of ancient science and history had hose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war seldom pass, either in their advancement or decline. The period in which the people of Christendom... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
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 | David Hume - 1848 - 628 páginas
...deeper into ignorance, stupidity, and superstition ; till the light of ancient science and history had very nearly suffered a total extinction in all the...return in a contrary direction, and beyond which they seldom pass either in their advancement or decline. The period in CHAP. which the people of Christendom... | |
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But there is a point of depression, as well as of exaltation, from which human affairs naturally return in a contrary direction, and beyond which they seldom pass either in their advancement or decline. 
