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
| Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 sivua
...Revolution in France.) EDWARD GIBBON, b. 1737, d. 1794. 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 condition,... | |
| Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 322 sivua
...intelligently. "The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators," he said, "and the domestic history of 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,... | |
| John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 404 sivua
...of the human race." "The discoveries of ancient and modern naviXII PROGRESS IN ENGLAND 223 gators, 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. f\ y .From thjs__abjej:t_jcpndition,... | |
| John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 412 sivua
...This was doubtless suggested to him by some remarks of Hume in The Rise of Arts and Sciences. gators, 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,... | |
| Herbert George Wells - 1920 - 1002 sivua
...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, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, i Gibbon forgets here... | |
| John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 402 sivua
...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, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen... | |
| Herbert George Wells - 1921 - 1220 sivua
...source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic liistory, or tradition, of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage, naked both in mind and body, and 1 Gibbon forgets here that cannon and the fundamentals of modern military method... | |
| Frank Johnston - 1925 - 376 sivua
...of the Roman Empire. Following Chapter 38) says: "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 condition,... | |
| Stewart J. Brown, Stewart Jay Brown - 1997 - 298 sivua
...hesitates over the idea of a universal stage of savagery: The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition, of the most...enlightened nations, represent the human savage, naked in both mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of a language. From this... | |
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