History of Civilization in England, כרך 1

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D. Appleton and Company, 1858

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Influence of the general aspects of nature upon the imagination
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Narrow range of knowledge possessed by historians
93
Under some aspects nature is more prominent than man under others
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Scepticism and spirit of inquiry on other subjects
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The progress of society is twofold moral and intellectual
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Intellectual truths are the cause of progress
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The diminution of the warlike spirit is owing to the same cause 137139
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This proposition illustrated by a comparison between Hindustan
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Chillingworth compared with Hooker and Jewel
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Illustrations of this from ancient Greece and modern Europe 143144
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The discoveries made by political economists 150158
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The application of steam to purposes of travelling 158160
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CHAPTER V
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Subsequent movement in the same direction and increasing indiffer
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Great advantage of this
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Hence too toleration was impossible in France
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CHAPTER VI
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Further illustration from Central America
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But the most active cause of all was the influence of the clergy
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Hence it appears that of the two classes of mental and physical
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But credulity was still prevalent as is seen in Comines
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Object of the present work
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Under James I and Charles I this opposition to authority assumes
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Universal decline of France during the latter part of the reign
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The first sceptic was not Rabelais but Montaigne
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It causes the establishment of the Royal Society
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Human actions if not the result of fixed laws must be due to chance
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This alliance was dissolved by the Declaration of Indulgence
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Therefore history is the modification of man by nature and of nature
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Hence the French Protestants being headed by the clergy become
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ciple of hereditary rank 442
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CHAPTER VIII
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Statistics prove the regularity of actions in regard to murder and other
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They raise a civil war which was a struggle of classes rather than
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This liberal policy on the part of the government was only part of
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And by Mazarin
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CHAPTER IX
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In England the nobles were less powerful than in France
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This state contrasted with that of England
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Illustration from the history of chivalry
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Analogy between the Reformation and the revolutions of the seven
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and Charles I vainly attempted to restore their power
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Coinciding with this the feudal system and an hereditary aristocracy
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But in France the energy of the protective spirit and the power
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As such men were the leaders of the Fronde the rebellion naturally
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CHAPTER XI
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CHAPTER XII
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Admiration of England expressed by Frenchmen
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The historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most influ
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CHAPTER XIII
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Hénault
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He weakened the authority of mere scholars and theologians
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The works of Montesquieu and value of his method
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The intellect of France began to attack the state about 1750
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But was averted for a time by the most eminent Frenchmen direct
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And in Condillac
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In England during the same period there was a dearth of great
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Relation between inventions discoveries and method and immense
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Great and successful efforts made by the French in botany 652654
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All these vast results were part of the causes of the French Revolu
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And in the establishment of clubs 664666
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Improvement in the method of writing history late in the sixteenth
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עמוד 174 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. 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.
עמוד 594 - Il ya des causes générales, soit morales, soit physiques, qui agissent dans chaque monarchie, l'élèvent, la maintiennent, ou la précipitent; tous les accidents sont soumis à ces causes; et, si le hasard d'une bataille, c'està-dire une cause particulière, a ruiné un État, il y avait une cause générale qui faisait que cet État devait périr par une seule bataille. En un mot, l'allure principale entraîne avec elle tous les accidents particuliers.
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 335 - 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 622 - Si la nature, au lieu de mains et de doigts flexibles, eût terminé nos poignets par un pied de cheval, qui doute que les hommes sans arts, sans habitations, sans défense contre les animaux, tout occupés du soin de pourvoir à leur nourriture et d'éviter les bêtes féroces, ne fussent encore errants dans les forêts comme des troupeaux fugitifs (i)?
עמוד 329 - 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 128 - Here, then, lies the gist of the whole matter. The progress is one, not of internal power, but of external advantage. The child born in a civilized land, is not likely, as such, to be superior to one born among barbarians ; and the difference which ensues between the acts of the two children will be caused, so far as we know, .solely by the pressure of external circumstances ; by which I mean the surrounding opinions, knowledge, associations, in a word, the entire mental atmosphere in which the two...
עמוד 333 - ... 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 129 - For there is, unquestionably, nothing to be found in the world which has undergone so little change as those great dogmas of which moral systems are composed. To do good to others; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes ; to love your neighbor as yourself; to forgive your enemies; to restrain your passions; to honor 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...
עמוד 247 - 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: howbeit, when all which the wisdom of all sorts can do is done for the devising of Laws in the Church, it is the general consent of all that giveth them the form and vigour of Laws, without which they could be no more unto us than the counsels of Physicians to the sick...

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