Histoire de la civilisation en Angleterre, Volume 5A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et cie., 1865 |
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Página 183 - In the liberal or loose system, luxury, wanton, and even disorderly mirth, the pursuit of pleasure to some degree of intemperance^ the breach of chastity, at least in one of the two sexes, &c.
Página 200 - If we consider the variety of talents displayed by this man ; as a public speaker, a man of business, a wit, a courtier, a companion, an author, a philosopher ; he is justly the object of great admiration.
Página 179 - The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived...
Página 179 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations...
Página 188 - Masters of all sorts, therefore, frequently make better bargains with their servants in dear than in cheap years, and find them more humble and dependent in the former than in the latter. They naturally, therefore, commend the former as more favourable to industry.
Página 206 - ... taking now and then a castle or village on the frontier, to march up directly to the capital or center of these sciences, to human nature itself; which being once masters of, we may every where else hope for an easy victory.
Página 183 - ... and dissipation is often sufficient to undo a poor workman for ever, and to drive him through despair upon committing the most enormous crimes. The wiser and better sort of the common people, therefore, have always the utmost abhorrence and detestation of such excesses, which their experience tells them are so immediately fatal to people of their condition. The disorder and extravagance of several years, on the contrary, will not always ruin a man of fashion, and people of that rank are very...
Página 208 - By degrees, the active imagination of men, uneasy in this abstract conception of objects, about which it is incessantly employed, begins to render them more particular, and to clothe them in shapes more suitable to its natural comprehension. It represents them to be sensible, intelligent beings, like mankind ; actuated by love and hatred, and flexible by gifts and entreaties, by prayers and sacrifices. Hence the origin of religion : And hence the origin of idolatry or polytheism.
Página 196 - It is indeed evident that money is nothing but the representation of labour and commodities, and serves only as a method of rating or estimating them.
Página 264 - C'est parmi ces tempêtes que naît la vie. Le charbon, premier de ces produits, commence à se montrer. Le calcaire, qui déjà s'était associé aux roches primitives , devient de plus en plus abondant ; de riches amas de sel marin , que l'homme exploitera un jour , remplissent de grandes cavités.