Sketches of the History of Man: In Two Volumes, Volumen2W. Creech, 1774 |
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... fame time made it e- vident , that a nation seldom gains by war ; and that agriculture , 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 e- vident , that a nation seldom gains by war ; and that agriculture , 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 depredations and reprisals . The clan - fpirit was much depreffed 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 depredations and reprisals . The clan - fpirit was much depreffed by their bad fuccefs in the ...
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... fame time make the best foldiers : a military spirit in the lower claffes arises from bodily ftrength , and from affection to their na- tal foil : both are eminent in the husbandman : constant exercise in the open air renders him hardy ...
... fame time make the best foldiers : a military spirit in the lower claffes arises from bodily ftrength , and from affection to their na- tal foil : both are eminent in the husbandman : constant exercise in the open air renders him hardy ...
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... fame to feveral of his predeceffors . But Saxony , de- fended only by a standing 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 still more feeble ...
... fame to feveral of his predeceffors . But Saxony , de- fended only by a standing 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 still more feeble ...
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... fame appetite ? Nothing ought to be more fedulously inculcated into every officer , than to defpife riches , as a mercan- tile object , below the dignity of a foldier Often has the courage of victorious troops been blunted by the ...
... fame appetite ? Nothing ought to be more fedulously inculcated into every officer , than to defpife riches , as a mercan- tile object , below the dignity of a foldier Often has the courage of victorious troops been blunted by the ...
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