History of Civilization in England, כרך 1

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D. Appleton and Company, 1858

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By other laws they have hindered the advance of knowledge
45
176
66
Scepticism and spirit of inquiry on other subjects
123
Illustrations from the history of French
124
The progress of society is twofold moral and intellectual
125
Intellectual truths are the cause of progress
131
The diminution of the warlike spirit is owing to the same cause 137139
137
Chillingworth compared with Hooker and Jewel
142
Illustrations of this from ancient Greece and modern Europe 143144
143
The discoveries made by political economists 150158
151
The application of steam to purposes of travelling 158160
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CHAPTER V
164
Universal decline of France during the latter part of the reign
170
Subsequent movement in the same direction and increasing indiffer
173
Great advantage of this
180
Greater power of the church in France than in England
195
Operation of these agents on the accumulation of wealth
226
His Age of Louis XIV
227
But the most active cause of all was the influence of the clergy
231
From Central America
253
Under James I and Charles I this opposition to authority assumes
259
Impetus now given to physical science and attempts of the clergy
269
And by his dislike of the church
281
After the Revolution the ablest men confined themselves to secular
299
Theology separated from morals and from politics 306307
306
Doctrine of personal representation and idea of independence
312
But discouraged by George III under whom began a dangerous
319
Importance of the Revolution
324
Ability and accomplishments of Burke 325329
325
Burkes subsequent hallucinations and violence 334339
334
Influence of the general aspects of nature upon the imagination
335
The king now favoured him 341342
341
This also reacted upon England
348
382
424
Richelieu put down the rebellion but still abstained from persecut
431
CHAPTER IX
440
In England the nobles were less powerful than in France
444
This state contrasted with that of England
450
Illustration from the history of chivalry
456
His Morals Manners and Character of Nations
458
Analogy between the Reformation and the revolutions of the seven
462
and Charles I vainly attempted to restore their power
468
Coinciding with this the feudal system and an hereditary aristocracy
469
But in France the energy of the protective spirit and the power
477
As such men were the leaders of the Fronde the rebellion naturally
483
CHAPTER XI
490
93
507
Further illustration from Central America
514
CHAPTER XII
517
Hence it appears that of the two classes of mental and physical
525
Hence liberal opinions in France which the government attempted
529
CHAPTER XIII
553
Historical literature in France before the end of the sixteenth cen
563
Hénault
582
early history of Rome
589
The discourses of Turgot and their influence
596
442
604
Just at the same time the government began to attack the church
618
And in Condillac
627
In England during the same period there was a dearth of great
636
Failure of these methods
641
Relation between inventions discoveries and method and immense
645
Great and successful efforts made by the French in botany 652654
652
All these vast results were part of the causes of the French Revolu
658
And in the establishment of clubs 664666
664
General reflections 670
670

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עמוד 95 - To do good to others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes ; to love your neighbour as yourself; to forgive your enemies; to restrain your passions; to honour your parents; to respect those who are set over you : these, and a few others, are the sole essentials of morals; but they have been known for thousands of years, and not one jot or tittle has been added to them by all the sermons, homilies, and text-books which moralists and theologians have been able to produce.
עמוד 20 - 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.
עמוד 301 - 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!
עמוד 299 - ... 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...
עמוד 223 - ... the chief, perhaps the only, English writer who has any claim to be considered an ecclesiastical historian, is the infidel Gibbon.
עמוד 140 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
עמוד 230 - For my part, I have ever believed (and do now know) that there are witches." They that doubt of these do not only deny them but spirits, and are obliquely and upon consequence a sort, not of infidels, but atheists.
עמוד 299 - America, if she has taxable matter in her, to tax herself. I am not here going into the distinctions of rights, nor attempting to mark their boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions. I hate the very sound of them.
עמוד 93 - ... and other personal peculiarities, that we must consider this alleged progress as a very doubtful point; and in the present state of our knowledge we cannot safely assume that there has been any permanent improvement in the moral or intellectual faculties of man; nor have we any decisive ground for saying that these faculties are likely to be greater in an infant born in the most civilized part of Europe than in one born in the wildest region of a barbarous country.
עמוד 122 - Well may it be said of Adam Smith, and said, too, without fear of contradiction, that this solitary Scotchman has, by the publication of one single work, contributed more towards the happiness of man, than has been effected by the united abilities .of all the statesmen. and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account.

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