Observations on the Character, Customs, and Superstitions of the Irish: And on Some of the Causes which Have Retarded the Moral and Political Improvement of IrelandGale and Curtis, 1812 - 345 頁 |
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... institutions as well as national habits and peculiarities have had their origin for the most part from circumstances which are now unknown : to form theoretical conjectures , therefore , is all to which any claim can be laid ; which ...
... institutions as well as national habits and peculiarities have had their origin for the most part from circumstances which are now unknown : to form theoretical conjectures , therefore , is all to which any claim can be laid ; which ...
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... institutions to the production of a state of things still more various . " Where the cc government of a nation is altogether republi- " can , it is apt to beget a peculiar set of man- 66 ners . Where it is altogether monarchical , " it ...
... institutions to the production of a state of things still more various . " Where the cc government of a nation is altogether republi- " can , it is apt to beget a peculiar set of man- 66 ners . Where it is altogether monarchical , " it ...
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... institutions , from national religion , or from the prejudices and habits of the people . ( 1. ) Political institutions . These have an asto- nishing power in creating or destroying the hap- piness of mankind ; in augmenting ...
... institutions , from national religion , or from the prejudices and habits of the people . ( 1. ) Political institutions . These have an asto- nishing power in creating or destroying the hap- piness of mankind ; in augmenting ...
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... institutions , when injurious , produce evils which cannot be removed by the removal of the institutions . Perhaps , they have given the impetus of the national mind a direction in which it will continue to move for ages , though that ...
... institutions , when injurious , produce evils which cannot be removed by the removal of the institutions . Perhaps , they have given the impetus of the national mind a direction in which it will continue to move for ages , though that ...
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... institutions oppose to the order of things . " recommended by nature . " It is elsewhere observed by the same author , that " the parti- " cular form , which the political union happens , " in the case of any community to assume , deter ...
... institutions oppose to the order of things . " recommended by nature . " It is elsewhere observed by the same author , that " the parti- " cular form , which the political union happens , " in the case of any community to assume , deter ...
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第 6 頁 - man, who should attempt to direct private " people in what manner they ought to employ *' their capitals, would not only load himself with " a most unnecessary attention, but assume an " authority which could safely be trusted,: not " only to no single person, but to no council or ** senate
第 73 頁 - withdraws us from ,the power of " our senses ; whatever makes the past, the *' distant, or the future, predominate over the " present, advances us in the dignity of think
第 6 頁 - What is the species of domestic industry " which his capital can employ, and of which the .*' produce is likely to be of the greatest value, " every individual, it is evident, can, in his local " situation judge much better than any states."•man or lawgiver can do for him. The
第 75 頁 - young men in moral discipline, that " they themselves do more deserve to be sharply " disciplined : for they seldom use to choose " unto themselves the doings of good men for " the arguments of their poems; but whomsoever " they found to be most licentious of life, most " bold and lawless in his doings, most
第 123 頁 - that Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, • • • And froze the genial
第 33 頁 - robe was heavy and chill ; For his country he sighed, when at twilight repairing, To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill. ' " • «• * " Sad is my fate !" said the heart-broken stranger* . " The wild deer and wolf to a cover can flee ; " But I have no refuge from famine and danger, "A home and a country remain not to me. '" Never again in the green sunny
第 69 頁 - them, and surely they savoured of " sweet wit and good invention ; but skilled " not of the goodly ornaments of poetry: yet \. , " were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers " of their natural device, which gave good " grace and comeliness unto them.
第 75 頁 - and desperate in all parts of disobedience " and rebellious disposition : him they set up " and glorify in their rithms, him they praise " to the people, and to young men make an " example to follow."—Thus " evil things
第 68 頁 - so high regard and estimation amongst them, " that none dare displease them, for fear to run " into reproach through their offence, and to be " made infamous in the mouths of all men. For " their verses are taken up with a general
第 144 頁 - reference is made in the book of Job, where it is said, " Skin for. skin ; yea,