Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen3A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... fame time made it evident , that a na- tion feldom gains by war ; and that agri- culture , manufactures , and commerce , are the only folid foundations of power and grandeur . These arts accordingly have become the chief objects of ...
... fame time made it evident , that a na- tion feldom gains by war ; and that agri- culture , manufactures , and commerce , are the only folid foundations of power and grandeur . These arts accordingly have become the chief objects of ...
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... fame practice irregularly many ages after they fubmitted to the king of Scotland . Open war was repreffed , but it went on privately by depreda- tions and reprifals . The clan - fpirit was much de- preffed by their bad fuccefs in the ...
... fame practice irregularly many ages after they fubmitted to the king of Scotland . Open war was repreffed , but it went on privately by depreda- tions and reprifals . The clan - fpirit was much de- preffed by their bad fuccefs in the ...
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... fame time make the best foldiers : a military fpirit in the lower claffes arifes from bodily ftrength , and from affection to their natal foil . Both are eminent in the husbandman : conftant exercife in the open air renders him hardy ...
... fame time make the best foldiers : a military fpirit in the lower claffes arifes from bodily ftrength , and from affection to their natal foil . Both are eminent in the husbandman : conftant exercife in the open air renders him hardy ...
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... fame to feveral of his prede- cellors . But Saxony , defended only by a ftanding army , could not hold out a fingle day against the prince now mentioned , at the head of a greater army . Mercenary troops are a defence ftill more feeble ...
... fame to feveral of his prede- cellors . But Saxony , defended only by a ftanding army , could not hold out a fingle day against the prince now mentioned , at the head of a greater army . Mercenary troops are a defence ftill more feeble ...
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... fame ; fo that nothing is gained , and the ef- " fect is , the general ruin . Every prince keeps as many armies in pay , as if he dreaded the exter- " mination of his people from a foreign invafion ; " and this perpetual struggle ...
... fame ; fo that nothing is gained , and the ef- " fect is , the general ruin . Every prince keeps as many armies in pay , as if he dreaded the exter- " mination of his people from a foreign invafion ; " and this perpetual struggle ...
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