 What should distinguish a German or a Briton, in the habits of his mind or his body, in his manners or apprehensions, from an American, who, like him, with his bow and his dart, is left to traverse the forest; and in a like severe or variable climate,...  An Essay on the History of Civil Society - Page 123de Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 424 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | David Wootton - 1994 - 518 pages
...distinguish a German or a Briton, in the habits of his mind or his body, in his manners or apprehensions, from an American, who, like him, with his bow and his dart, is left to traverse the forest; and in a like severe or variable climate, is obliged to subsist by the chace?"... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 448 pages
...to believe, our fathers were placed. WHAT mould diftinguifti a German or a Briton, in the habits of his mind or his body, in his manners or apprehenfions,...a juft notion of our progrefs from the cradle, we [muft have recourfe to the nurfery, and from the example of thofe who are ftill in the period of life... | |
 | Dror Wahrman, Ruth N Halls Professor of History Dror Wahrman - 2004 - 432 pages
...apprehensions", the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson wrote, nothing distinguishes the ancient German or Briton "from an American, who, like him, with his bow and his dart, is left to traverse the forest". In the end, the diversity — or similarity - of man is molded above all by man... | |
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