An Essay Upon National Character: Being an Inquiry Into Some of the Principal Causes which Contribute to Form and Modify the Characters of Nations in the State of Civilisation, 第 2 卷J. Duncan, 1832 |
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第 326 頁 - fine linen, and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the ' merchant. Strength and honor are her clothing. She ' openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the ' law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of
第 394 頁 - general character, however, pervades the writings of all: they belong to a court, not to a people, and consist more in happy perceptions than in reasonings ; in verbal felicities than in thought; and the best that can be said of them is, that they are
第 326 頁 - openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the ' law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of
第 509 頁 - granted what was the most dear to the wishes of their patriotism—a charter, by which many of the grievances complained of under his father and his brother were formally redressed. One of the most remarkable conditions of this act was, that the vassals of the barons should enjoy the same privileges which he had granted to his own immediate vassals, and the sovereign thus acknowledged the
第 518 頁 - and fifty thousand marks of silver. The captivity of the superior lord was one of the cases provided for by the feudal tenures, and all the vassals of the kingdom were
第 65 頁 - and enlightened nation is that whose industry can pour upon the world the greatest proportion of the best and most valuable commodities in the shortest time. From the rapidity with which such a nation fabricates good things, is derived a necessary appendage to this mode of appreciating
第 422 頁 - so many domestic joys; who is called away by so few seductions; who has eternally before her eyes the respect paid to those of her sex who perform their duty, and the contempt and misery which await those who do not; who
第 71 頁 - and allowing the enormous sum of 50,000,000/. sterling for the wear and tear of machinery, buildings, interest of capital, accidents, &c.; the result is that the machinery employed in the cotton manufactories saves
第 224 頁 - faisant l'exercice. On voyait les majors appuyer leurs Cannes sur les fusils
第 61 頁 - 1641 and 1647, the parliament levied forty millions, to wage war against the king. Even in the worst times of the republic, commerce was protected, as the generalisation of the navigation act, and other wise measures of Cromwell, sufficiently prove. Sir James Child, in his • Discourses on