History of Civilization in England, Nide 2

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John W. Parker, 1858
 

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This proposition illustrated by a comparison between Hindustan
133
Examination of the two metaphysical methods of generalizing
138
CHAPTER IV
153
As such men were the leaders of the Fronde the rebellion naturally
156
And intellectual truths are constantly changing
167
Statistics prove the regularity of actions in regard to murder
172
The diminution of the warlike spirit is owing to the same cause 173175
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Illustrations from Russia and Turkey
180
The discoveries made by political economists
191
CHAPTER V
207
Similar proof respecting suicides
239
CHAPTER XI
254
CHAPTER VI
265
One cause of error in history was the invention of writing
277
The first improvement in writing history began in the fourteenth
298
Also in the work of Dr Horst on the Golden Tooth 304305
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Origin of religious toleration in England
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This tendency displayed in Chillingworth 319321
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Influence of this spirit upon Sir Thomas Browne 334337
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It causes the establishment of the Royal Society
340
Legislative improvements in the reign of Charles II in spite
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These improvements were due to the sceptical and inquiring spirit 354355
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The clergy to recover their ground allied themselves with James II 361362
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The clergy lost all offices out of the church and their numbers
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Theology separated from morals and from politics
401
Incompetence of other statesmen and the kings hatred of great
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Burkes subsequent hallucinations and violence
437
Also respecting the number of marriages annually contracted
472
Centralization was in France the natural successor of feudality 571574
571
Another illustration from the vanity of the French and pride
583
CHAPTER X
595
THE PROTECTIVE SPIRIT CARRIED BY LOUIS XIV INTO LITERATURE
621
Servility in the reign of Louis XIV
631
Illustrations from the history of French
640
DEATH OF LOUIS XIV
648
CHAPTER XII
655
to stifle
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The historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most
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CHAPTER XIII
701
Historical literature in France before the end of the sixteenth cen
712
And from that of Bossuet
734
He advocated free trade
741
Who had repeated the most childish absurdities respecting
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The works of Montesquieu and value of his method 751756
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The discourses of Turgot and their influence 757758
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Recapitulation of preceding views 759760
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But owing to the progress of knowledge a counter reaction
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And to favour religious toleration 770772
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Jansenism being allied to Calvinism its revival in France aided
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Connexion between this movement and the rise of atheism 786788
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And in Condillac 792795
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Also on chemistry and geology 799807
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In England during the same period there was a dearth of great
808
Connexion between these views and subsequent discoveries 816819
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Bichats work on life 823827
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And in mineralogy by De Lisle and Haüy 831834
831
Analogy between this and Pinels work on insanity 834835
834
The same democratic tendency was observable in changes of dress 841842
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Summary of the causes of the French Revolution 848850
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Sivu 840 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Sivu 421 - The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth!
Sivu 216 - The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations.
Sivu 310 - In matters of God, to set down a Form of Prayer, a solemn Confession of the Articles of the Christian Faith, and Ceremonies meet for the exercise of Religion ; it were unnatural not to think the Pastors and Bishops of our souls a great deal more fit, than men of secular trades and callings...
Sivu 413 - In effect, to follow not to force the public inclination, to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Sivu 418 - ... necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us: because, after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our own imaginations...
Sivu 26 - In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. This is the general law; and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends of course upon special laws; which, however, in their total action, must obey the large social law to which they are subordinate. And the power of the larger law is so irresistible, that neither the love of life nor the fear of another world can avail anything towards even checking its operation.
Sivu 49 - The condition of the class can be bettered in no other way than by altering that proportion to their advantage : and every scheme for their benefit, which does not proceed on this as its foundation, is, for all permanent purposes, a delusion.
Sivu 138 - Europe, the population of the towns is everywhere outstripping that of the country; and it is evident that the more men congregate in great cities, the more they will become accustomed to draw their materials of thought from the business of human life, and the less attention they will pa,y to those peculiarities of nature, which are the fertile source of superstition, and by which, in every civilization out of Europe, the progress of man was arrested. From these facts it may be fairly inferred, that...
Sivu 317 - For my part, I am certain that God hath given us our reason, to discern between truth and falsehood ; and he that makes not this use of it, but believes things he knows not why; I say, it is by chance that he believes the truth, and not by choice ; and that I cannot but fear that God will not accept of this sacrifice of fools.

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