History of Civilization in England, כרך 1

כריכה קדמית
D. Appleton, 1890

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The spirit of doubt was a necessary precursor of improvement
45
Illustration of these principles from Ireland
47
Illustration from the early history of Christianity
49
Illustrations from the history of French
51
And from Mexico and Peru
53
And from Sweden and Scotland
57
Influence of government on the progress of society
66
Influence of the general aspects of nature upon the imagination
85
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Under some aspects nature is more prominent than man under others
109
Scepticism and spirit of inquiry on other subjects
123
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There is no evidence that the natural faculties of man improve
127
The diminution of religious persecution is owing to the progress
136
This proposition illustrated by a comparison between Hindustan
139
The invention of gunpowder
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Great advantage of this
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Ilence too toleration was impossible in France
189
CHAPTER VI
209
Further illustration from Central America
229
But the most active cause of all was the influence of the clergy
231
The application of steam to purposes of travelling
258
Under James I and Charles I this opposition to authority assumes
259
Universal decline of France during the latter part of the reign
261
Continuation of the movement by Charron
267
encouraged the Protestants
276
The clergy are naturally hostile to physical science because it lessens
278
Undergraduaté
283
Hence the French Protestants being headed by the clergy become
298
The clergy lost all offices out of the church and their numbers
300
In England during the same period there was a dearth of great
306
CHAPTER V
315
Subserviency of Pitt
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עמוד 341 - 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 180 - 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.
עמוד 319 - After the Revolution, the spirit of the nation became much more commercial, than it had been before ; a learned body, or clerisy, as such, gradually disappeared, and literature in general began to be addressed to the common miscellaneous public. That public had become accustomed to, and required, a strong stimulus ; and to meet the requisitions of the public taste, a style was produced which by combining triteness of thought with singularity and excess of manner of expression, was calculated at once...
עמוד 335 - 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.
עמוד 339 - ... 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 267 - Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies.
עמוד 118 - 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...
עמוד 80 - Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe, is covered with a vegetation of incredible profusion. Indeed, so rank and luxuriant is the growth, that Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power.
עמוד 333 - The excursions of his genius are immense? His imperial fancy has laid all nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation, and every walk of art. His eulogium on the Queen of France is a masterpiece of pathetic composition ; so select are its images, so fraught with tenderness, and so rich with colours,
עמוד 339 - 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.

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