Sketches of the History of Man: In Two Volumes, Volumen2 |
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D URING the infancy of a nation , every member depends on his own industry for procuring the neceffaries of life he is his own mason , his own tailor , his own phyfician ; and on himself he chiefly relies for offence as well as defence ...
D URING the infancy of a nation , every member depends on his own industry for procuring the neceffaries of life he is his own mason , his own tailor , his own phyfician ; and on himself he chiefly relies for offence as well as defence ...
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If a warlike king , heading his own troops , be ambitious to render himself abfolute , there are no means to evade the impending blow ; for what avail the greatest number of effeminate cowards against a difciplined army , devoted to ...
If a warlike king , heading his own troops , be ambitious to render himself abfolute , there are no means to evade the impending blow ; for what avail the greatest number of effeminate cowards against a difciplined army , devoted to ...
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The author himself remarks , that the use and exercife of arms , would make the youth place their honour upon that art , and would enflame them with love of military glory ; not adverting , that love of military glory , diffufed through ...
The author himself remarks , that the use and exercife of arms , would make the youth place their honour upon that art , and would enflame them with love of military glory ; not adverting , that love of military glory , diffufed through ...
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It is a public calamity , from " which the citizen has no means of faving himself but by money ; and it is confe« quently the worst of all the refources of government . Would it not be more " expedient 66 66 ...
It is a public calamity , from " which the citizen has no means of faving himself but by money ; and it is confe« quently the worst of all the refources of government . Would it not be more " expedient 66 66 ...
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... in fortifying camps and demolishing them , in digging trenches and filling them up , in building high walls and pulling them down ; he himself , from morning to night , going about , and directing every operation .
... in fortifying camps and demolishing them , in digging trenches and filling them up , in building high walls and pulling them down ; he himself , from morning to night , going about , and directing every operation .
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