 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 - 1768 - 430 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Edmund Burke - 1768 - 642 pages
...of nature is to be 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...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
...of nature ,is to be 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...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
...nature is to be found ? •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... | |
 | 1890 - 1460 pages
...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. While this active being (man) is in the train of employing his talents, and of operating on the subjects around him, all situations... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1903 - 736 pages
...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...of employing his talents, and of operating on the subjects around him, all situations are equally natural. If we are told, That vice, at least, is contrary... | |
 | Michel Foucault - 1991 - 322 pages
...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." Like Hume's, Ferguson's man is 'destined from the first age of his being to invent and contrive'. Both... | |
 | James Conniff - 1994 - 384 pages
...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," he undoubtedly struck a responsive chord in Burke. 93 IV A second approach to the problem of judgment... | |
 | David Bidney - 596 pages
...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...of employing his talents, and of operating on the subjects around him, all situations are equally natural. If we are told, that vice, at least, is contrary... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...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...of employing his talents, and of operating on the subjects around him, all situations are equally natural. If we are told, that vice, at least, is contrary... | |
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