If we are asked therefore, where the state of nature is to be found ? We may answer, it is here ; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan. An Essay on the History of Civil Society - Page 12de Adam Ferguson - 1809 - 464 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Edmund Burke - 1768 - 642 pages
...found ? we may anfwcr, It is here ; and it matters not whether we are underlrood to fpeak in the ifland of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan. While this aftive being is in the train of employing his talents, and of operating on the fnbjefts around him,... | |
| 1800 - 594 pages
...found ? we may anfwer, It is here ; and it matters not whether we are underftood to fpeak in the ifland of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan. While this aftive being is in the train of employing his talents, and of operating on the fubjefts around him,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1800 - 600 pages
...•we may anfwer,-It: is here; and it matter,* not whether we are un-tlerftood" to fpeak in the ifland of Great Britain, - at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Ma. •gcllaT). While this aftive being -is in the train of employing his •talent*, and of operating... | |
| 1800 - 596 pages
...iv с itriv anfwcr, It is here; and it matters not whether we ate underftood to fpeak in the jfland of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Ma. gellan. while this aftive being is in the train of employing his talents, and of operating on the... | |
| Alexander Mundell - 1825 - 244 pages
...has no pretensions to the character of a statesman. If, then, we are asked where is public opinion to be found ? we may answer it is here ; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak of London or Liverpool, Edinburgh or Glasgow, Dublin or Belfast, the palace of the sovereign or the... | |
| Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...hand or foot." " We speak of art as distinguished from nature ; but art itself is natural to man." " If we are asked, therefore, where the state of nature is to be found ? We answer, It his here, and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in Great Britain, the Cape... | |
| 1870 - 510 pages
...a state of nature than that of the Camanches or NewZealanders. " If we are asked," says Ferguson, " where the state of nature is to be found, we may answer,...understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, or at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan." " If we admit that man is susceptible 1870.]... | |
| Frederic Henry Hedge - 1877 - 384 pages
...state of nature than that of the Camanches or New Zealanders. " If we are asked," says Ferguson, " where the state of nature is to be found, we may answer,...we are understood to speak in the island of Great 2 Britain, or at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan." " If we admit that man is susceptible... | |
| Adolf Bastian - 1881 - 144 pages
...der sogen. Naturvölker ist mehrfach in Frage gezogen, und schon Ferguson sagt: „If we are asked, where the state of nature is to be found? we may answer: It is here! aud it matters not, whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great alleiniger Beschränkung... | |
| Adolf Bastian - 1881 - 144 pages
...der sogen. Naturvölker ist mehrfach in Frage gezogen, und schon Ferguson sagt: „If we are asked, where the state of nature is to be found? we may answer: It is here! aud it matters not, whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great tJ <7 alleiniger Beschränkung... | |
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