The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition, of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage, naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections ... - Sivu 212tekijä(t) Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - 1794Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 448 sivua
...remains a more humble " source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition, of the most...nations, represent the human savage, naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language *. From this abject... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 446 sivua
...source of comfort and hope. The discoveries * of ancient and modern navigators, and the do-j mestic history, or tradition, of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage, naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language *. From this abject... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 430 sivua
...remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition, of the most...enlightened nations, represent the human savage, naked ooth in mind and body, and destitute of /aws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language.' From this... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - 336 sivua
...View of Society in Europe. • GIBBON. ;/.• The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, •nd the domestic history or tradition of the most enlightened...nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 sivua
...remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and niodern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition, of the most...nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition,... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1834 - 278 sivua
...traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savnge naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of, ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1834 - 278 sivua
...elegant historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, " and the domestic history or traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition,... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1834 - 276 sivua
...elegant historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, " and the domestic history or traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition,... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1847 - 524 sivua
...do not * " The discoveries of ancient and modern navigation, and the domestic history or traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and hody, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition,... | |
| Alexander Strachan - 1853 - 550 sivua
...discoveries of ancient and modern navigation," says Gibbon, "and the domestic history or traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human...of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually risen... | |
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