Letters on the Study and Use of History, Volume 1A. Millar, 1752 - 286 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... should speak to our understandings fo fel- dom ? That it does fo , we have none to blame but our felves . Nature has done her part . She has opened this study to every man who can read and think : and what she has made the most ...
... should speak to our understandings fo fel- dom ? That it does fo , we have none to blame but our felves . Nature has done her part . She has opened this study to every man who can read and think : and what she has made the most ...
Pagina 15
... should speak to our understandings fo fel- dom ? That it does fo , we have none to blame but our felves . Nature has done her part . She has opened this study to every man who can read and think : and what she has made the most ...
... should speak to our understandings fo fel- dom ? That it does fo , we have none to blame but our felves . Nature has done her part . She has opened this study to every man who can read and think : and what she has made the most ...
Pagina 16
... should be made the principal , much less the fole , ob- ject of their application . The true and proper object of this application , is a con- stant improvement in private and in pub- lic virtue . An application to any study , that ...
... should be made the principal , much less the fole , ob- ject of their application . The true and proper object of this application , is a con- stant improvement in private and in pub- lic virtue . An application to any study , that ...
Pagina 19
... lord , who fays , that the gentleft , he should have added the most effectual , way of com- manding , is by example ? " Mitiùs jubetur VOL . I. " exemplo . C exemplo . " The harfheft orders are foft- ened by Of the STUDY of HISTORY . 17.
... lord , who fays , that the gentleft , he should have added the most effectual , way of com- manding , is by example ? " Mitiùs jubetur VOL . I. " exemplo . C exemplo . " The harfheft orders are foft- ened by Of the STUDY of HISTORY . 17.
Pagina 63
... should act the fame part now , and , in order to fecure his victory , get killed as faft as he could ; he might pass for an hero , but I am fure he would pass for a madman . Even these examples however are of ufe : they excite us at ...
... should act the fame part now , and , in order to fecure his victory , get killed as faft as he could ; he might pass for an hero , but I am fure he would pass for a madman . Even these examples however are of ufe : they excite us at ...
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Pagina 142 - But human foul Muft rife from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake, As the fmall pebble ftirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle ftrait fucceeds, Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Pagina 12 - The same principle in this instance carries us forward and backward, to future and to past ages. We imagine that the things which affect us must affect posterity ; this sentiment runs through mankind, from Caesar down to the parish-clerk in Pope's Miscellany.
Pagina 27 - There is scarce any folly or vice more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other; and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the standards of right and wrong, of true and false.
Pagina 179 - ... the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws ; and they must trace the laws of particular states, especially of their own, from the first rough sketches to the more perfect draughts ; from the first causes or occasions, that produced them, through all the effects good and bad that they produced.
Pagina 232 - And Philip the fourth was obliged, at last, to conclude a peace, on terms repugnant to his inclination, to that of his people, to the interest of Spain, and to that of all Europe, in the Pyrenean treaty.
Pagina 95 - Demonftration ; in fine, how they were loft during the captivity, and how they were retrieved after it, are all matters of controverfy to this day.
Pagina 29 - I apprehend growing too prolix, and shall therefore conclude this head by observing, that though an early and proper application to the study of history will contribute extremely to keep our minds free from a ridiculous partiality in favour of our own country, and a vicious prejudice against others, yet the same study will create in...
Pagina 178 - There will be none such any more, till, in some better age, true ambition or the love of fame prevails over avarice; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the
Pagina 15 - Such is the imperfection of human understanding, such the frail temper of our minds, that abstract or general propositions, though ever so true, appear obscure or doubtful to us very often, till they are explained by examples...
Pagina 16 - ... never become so perfect a copy of Zeno, if he had not passed his life with him ; that Plato, Aristotle, and the other philosophers of that school, profited more by the example, than by the discourse of Socrates.