 | David Hume - 1882 - 548 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 theii advancement or decline. The period in which the people of Christendom were... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 232 páginas
...suffered a total extinction in all the European nations. WILLIAM THE COSQUEBOK. 4. But there is one point of depression as well as of exaltation, from...return in a contrary direction, and beyond which they seldom pass, either in their advancement or decline. The period in which the people of Christendom2... | |
 | 1887 - 734 páginas
...information and even manners in the administration, little could be expected, and nothing was produced. But there is a point of depression, as well as of exaltation, from which all human affairs naturally advance or recede. Therefore proptionate to your depression, we may expect... | |
 | David Breakenridge Read - 1888 - 516 páginas
...information, and even manners in the administration, little could be expected, and nothing was produci d. But there is a point of depression, as well as of exaltation, from which all human affairs naturally advance or recede. Therefore, proportionate to yonr depression, we may... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 páginas
...deeper into ignorance, stupidity, and superstition ; till the light of ancient science and history had n, sad-dispersed, Dig for the withered herí) througli heaps of snow. . . • seldom pass, either in their advancement or decline. The period in which the people of Christendom... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 páginas
...deeper into ignorance, stupidity, and superstition ; till the light of ancient science and history had nual tears. See h seldom pass, either in their advancement or decline. The period in which the people of Christendom... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 394 páginas
...belief. But, according to the observation of an elegant and profound historian,17 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... | |
 | Duncan Forbes - 1985 - 358 páginas
...the age of Augustus' (rv, 44) to be followed by a downward movement to 'a point of depression . . . from which human affairs naturally return in a contrary direction and beyond which they seldom pass either in their advancement or decline', which nadir Hume fixes 'about the age of William... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 páginas
...period." Casting his eyes on the "general revolutions of society," Hume noted that "there is an ultimate point of depression, as well as of exaltation, from...return in a contrary direction, and beyond which they seldom pass either in their advancement or decline."25 But infrequent remarks of this sort should not... | |
 | N. Capaldi, D. Livingston - 1990 - 246 páginas
...view of history, or the "general revolutions of society," according to which "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" (II. 519). He cites... | |
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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. 
