 Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future ; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are, indeed, the result of human action, but not the execution of any...  An Essay on the History of Civil Society - Page 199de Adam Ferguson - 1809 - 464 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | CHARLES MAYO, L.L.B. - 1804 - 582 pages
...have impressed their troops with awe, blended with personal attachment, by a display of their valour " human design." " If Cromwell said, that a man never...with more reason be affirmed of communities, that " ihty admit of the he greatest revolutions where no change is intended, and that the most " refined... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are, indeed, the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. If Cromwell said that a man never mounts higher than whbn he knows not whither he is going, it may, with more reason, be affirmed of communities, that they... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 872 pages
...nations stumble upon establishments which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of human design. If Cromwell said that a man never mounts...higher than when he knows not whither he is going; [this remark of Cromwell's is quoted also by Hume and Turgot] it may with more reason be affirmed by... | |
 | George Dekker - 1990 - 392 pages
...to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. If Cromwell...admit of the greatest revolutions where no change is intended.25 Whether Cooper was familiar with this passage matters but little, since the basic idea... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 pages
...right to say that an individual never achieves more than when he does not know where he is headed, "it may with more reason be affirmed of communities,...greatest revolutions where no change is intended. " So every step taken by the multitude, even in "enlightened ages," is "made with equal blindness to... | |
 | David Jablonsky - 1991 - 264 pages
...full of success & hope," he wrote, "cannot be reckoned the worst of fortune."21 The Emotional Romantic A man never mounts higher than when he knows not whither he is going. Oliver Cromwell The late Victorian world was also marked by a romantic, emotional enthusiasm that bordered... | |
 | James A. Caporaso, David P. Levine - 1992 - 258 pages
...the following words: If Cromwell said, [t]hat man never mounts higher, than when he knows not wither he is going; it may with more reason be affirmed of...revolutions where no change is intended, and that the most refined politicians do not always know wither they are leading the state by their projects.... | |
 | E. Vedung - 362 pages
...to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. If Cromwell...That a man never mounts higher than when he knows not wither he is going; it may with more reason be affirmed of communities, that they admit of the greatest... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 448 pages
...are indeed the refult of human action, but not the execution of any human defign *. If Cromwell faid, That a man never mounts higher, than when he knows not whither he is going ; it may with more reafon be affirmed of communities, that they admit of the greateft revolutions where no change is intended,... | |
 | Lisa Hill - 2006 - 312 pages
...revolutionary) in making his point that it is our blindness to effects which best secures social order. A 'man never mounts higher, than when he knows not whither he is going'.7" The Aristotelian influence is prominent here with a distinction made between higher and lower... | |
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