History of Civilization in England, Svazek 1

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D. Appleton and Company, 1866
 

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Illustration of these principles from Ireland
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From Egypt 5966
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From Central America
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Operation of physical laws in Brazil
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Influence of the general aspects of nature upon the imagination
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Also by an unhealthy climate making life precarious 9193
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Narrow range of knowledge possessed by historians
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Further illustration from Central America
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Hence it appears that of the two classes of mental and physical
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The historical method of studying mental laws is superior to
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Examination of the two metaphysical methods of generalizing men
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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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The interference of politicians with trade has injured trade
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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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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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Universal decline of France during the latter part of the reign
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ence to theological matters
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Great advantage of this
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The first sceptic was not Rabelais but Montaigne
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By their laws against usury they have increased usury
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CHAPTER VI
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It causes the establishment of the Royal Society
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And from that of Bossuet
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But the most active cause of all was the influence of the clergy
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But credulity was still prevalent as is seen in Comines
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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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The clergy are naturally hostile to physical science because it lessens
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Under James I and Charles I this opposition to authority assumes
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These improvements were due to the sceptical and inquiring spirit
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Human actions if not the result of fixed laws must be due to chance
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encouraged the Protestants
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Subserviency of Pitt
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Importance of the Revolution
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Ability and accomplishments of Burke
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He supported the new secular scheme of government against the
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Gloomy political prospects of England late in the eighteenth century 351355
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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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The nobles displace the clergy and celibacy is opposed by the prin
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CHAPTER VIII
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But in France immense impetus was given to zoology by Cuvier
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Statistics prove the regularity of actions in regard to murder and other
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Physical science is essentially democratic
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Centralization was in France the natural successor of feudality
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These improvements were due to the sceptical and inquiring spirit
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Evidence of the illiberality of the French Protestants
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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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Power of the French nobles
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Another illustration from the vanity of the French and pride of
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In the reign of Elizabeth both classes were weakened
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Coinciding with this the feudal system and an hereditary aristocracy
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Vanity and imbecility of the French nobles
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CHAPTER XI
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CHAPTER XII
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And by his dislike of the church
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The historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most influ
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Importance of the Revolution
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But the clergy regretted it and repented of their own
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CHAPTER XIII
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Improvement in the method of writing history late in the sixteenth
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His views adopted by Mallet Mably Velly Villaret Duclos
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He weakened the authority of mere scholars and theologians
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The discourses of Turgot and their influence
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Just at the same time the government began to attack the church
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Influence of the American Rebellion
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Strana 333 - 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!
Strana 327 - 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.
Strana 172 - 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.
Strana 18 - 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 all 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.
Strana 333 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me.' They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.
Strana 311 - 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...
Strana 331 - ... 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...
Strana 372 - ... chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n'est pas de son usage ; comme de vray, il semble que nous n'avons autre mire de la vérité et de la raison que l'exemple et idée des opinions et usances du païs où nous sommes. Là est tousjours la parfaicte religion, la parfaicte police, perfect et accomply usage de toutes choses.
Strana 127 - 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.
Strana 161 - The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are nentralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movement of future ages.

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