| Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - 1794 - 542 páginas
...tibject condition of the savage state, however, man has been seen gradually to arise, to command other animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and -to measure the heavens. In the progress and improvement of his mental and corporeal faculties, he has been seen to have been... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 440 páginas
...From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the k It would be an easy, though tedious, task to produce the authorities of poets, philosophers, and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 430 páginas
...perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, fre has gradu ally arisen to command th«£.animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement and exercise of his mental and corporeal faculties! has been irregular... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 528 páginas
...Frorp this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement arid exercise of his mental and corpo-. real faculties' has been irregular... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1834 - 278 páginas
...From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens." * * " Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," iv. 519. Such opinions, however, are a mere exemplification... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1834 - 280 páginas
...From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens." * * " Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," iv. 51!*. Such opinions, however, are a mere... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1834 - 278 páginas
...From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens." * , * " Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," iv. 519. Such opinions, however, are a mere... | |
| Alexander Strachan - 1853 - 550 páginas
...almost of language. From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually risen to command the animals, to fertilize...to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens." This may be regarded as a fair representation, not only of the sentiments of the author, but also of... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1861 - 500 páginas
...the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually risen to command the animals, to fertilise the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the...of history, both sacred and profane, proclaims the conname, unfortunately, has not descended to posterity, hit upon the happy expedient of taming the... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1864 - 486 páginas
...the primitin ami universal ttate of man, he has gradually risen to command the animals, to fertilise the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the...savage state was the primitive and universal state cf man. The voice of history, both sacred and profane, proclaims the conname, unfortunately, has not... | |
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