 | David Hume - 1789 - 452 pagina’s
...truth and fincerity of men, who live in a rude and barbarous ftate, there is much more f.ilfehood, and even perjury among them , than among civilized...«is nothing but a more enlarged, and More cultivated reafon ,, never flourilhes.to any degree , nor is founded on fteady principles of honour , except where... | |
 | David Hume - 1789 - 536 pagina’s
...ufual truth and fincerity of men who live in a rude and barbarous ftate, there is much more falfehood, and even perjury among them, than among civilized...is nothing but a more enlarged and more cultivated reafon, never flouriflies to any degree, nor is founded on fteady principles of honour, except where... | |
 | James Anderson - 1793 - 390 pagina’s
...anarchy is the immediate cause of tyranny, if not over the state, at least over many of the indu viduals. Whatever we may imagine concerning the usual truth...state, there is much more falsehood, and even perjury amongst them than in civilized nations ; and virtue, which is nothing but a more cultivated reason,... | |
 | 1812 - 708 pagina’s
...the British nation. " Virtue," says this learned historian, " which is nothing but an enlarged and cultivated reason, never flourishes to any degree,...is founded on steady principles of honour, except where a good < dueatkm becomes general, and where men are taught the pernicious consequences of vice,... | |
 | James Mill - 1817 - 700 pagina’s
...singular, the proofs were not less so ; and were also the natural result of the situation of those people. Whatever we may imagine concerning the usual truth...is founded on steady principles of honour, except where a good education becomes general ; and where men are taught the pernicious consequences of vice,... | |
 | David Hume - 1819 - 432 pagina’s
...singular, the proofs were not less so ; and were also the natural result of the situation of those people. Whatever we may imagine concerning the usual truth...nations: virtue, which is nothing but a more enlarged arid more cultivated reason, never flourishes to any degree, nor is founded on steady principles of... | |
 | William Turner - 1820 - 582 pagina’s
...hundreds. So true is the observation made by Hume in his description of the Anglo-Saxons (Appendix I.). " Whatever we may imagine concerning the usual " truth...perjury among them, than among civilized " nations." It is considered a bad sign in Turkey if a violent rain fall during the existence of the plague, as... | |
 | William Turner - 1820 - 578 pagina’s
...hundreds. So true is the observation made by Hume in his description of the Anglo-Saxons (Appendix I.). " Whatever we may imagine concerning the usual " truth...perjury among them, than among civilized " nations." It is considered a bad sign in Turkey if a violent rain fall during the existence of the plague, as... | |
 | James Mill - 1820 - 496 pagina’s
...singular, the proofs were not less so: and were also the natural result of the situation of those people. Whatever we may imagine concerning the usual truth and sincerity of men who live in a rude aud barbarous state, there is much more falsehood, and even perjury, among them, than among civili/.ed... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1820 - 426 pagina’s
...hitherto possesstnl, or at present eujoy.— " Virtue,'* says the philosophical historian of England, " never flourishes to any degree, nor is founded on steady principles of honor, except where a good education becomes general, and where men are taught the pernicious consequences... | |
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... people. Whatever we may imagine concerning the usual truth and sincerity of men who live in a rude and barbarous state, there is much more falsehood, and even perjury, among them, than among civilized nations... 
