Sketches of the History of Man: In Four Volumes, Volumen2William Bell, 1802 |
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... Society , are difficult to be accounted for . The Caledonians were not an original tribe , to found a supposition that they might have man- ners peculiar to themselves : they were a branch of the Celta , and had a language common to ...
... Society , are difficult to be accounted for . The Caledonians were not an original tribe , to found a supposition that they might have man- ners peculiar to themselves : they were a branch of the Celta , and had a language common to ...
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... society are delineated ; and now I proceed to present my readers with the fruits of my labour . 66 66 " is The Danes , fays Adam of Bremen , are remarkable for elevation of mind : the punishment of death is less dreaded by them than ...
... society are delineated ; and now I proceed to present my readers with the fruits of my labour . 66 66 " is The Danes , fays Adam of Bremen , are remarkable for elevation of mind : the punishment of death is less dreaded by them than ...
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... society . The circumftance that has occafioned the greatest doubt about Offian's fyftem of manners , is the figure his women make . Among other favage nations , they are held to be beings of an inferior rank ; and as fuch are treated ...
... society . The circumftance that has occafioned the greatest doubt about Offian's fyftem of manners , is the figure his women make . Among other favage nations , they are held to be beings of an inferior rank ; and as fuch are treated ...
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... own reflections more than what are inculcated by an author , were he even to afcend the pulpit , and at every turn to pronounce a ferious harangue . SKETCH I. APPETITE FOR SOCIETY.ORIGIN OF NATIONAL SOCIETIES . TH [19] ...
... own reflections more than what are inculcated by an author , were he even to afcend the pulpit , and at every turn to pronounce a ferious harangue . SKETCH I. APPETITE FOR SOCIETY.ORIGIN OF NATIONAL SOCIETIES . TH [19] ...
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In Four Volumes Lord Henry Home Kames. SKETCH I. APPETITE FOR SOCIETY.ORIGIN OF NATIONAL SOCIETIES . TH HAT there is in man an appetite for fociety , never was called in queftion * . But to what end the ap- petite ferves , whether it be ...
In Four Volumes Lord Henry Home Kames. SKETCH I. APPETITE FOR SOCIETY.ORIGIN OF NATIONAL SOCIETIES . TH HAT there is in man an appetite for fociety , never was called in queftion * . But to what end the ap- petite ferves , whether it be ...
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Página 21 - And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Página 59 - ftars that have fhone : we only hear the found of " their praife. But they were renowned in their " day, and the terror of other times. Thus fhall " we pafs, O warriors, in the day of our fall. Then " let us be renowned while we may ; and leave our " fame behind us, like the laft...
Página 207 - ... for if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government. For what property have I in that which another may by right take when he pleases to himself?
Página 57 - His renown will be a light to my soul, in the dark hour of my departure. O that the name of Morni were forgot among the people ! that the heroes would only say, ' Behold the father of Gaul !'" "King of Strumon," Fingal replied, "Gaul shall lift the sword in fight.
Página 56 - Nuath would mourn, in his hall, for the departure of his fame. His eyes would turn from Lathmon, when the tread of his feet approached. Go thou to the heroes, chief of Dutha ! I behold the stately steps of Ossian. His fame is worthy of my steel ! let us contend in fight.
Página 77 - Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. As the last peal of thunder in heaven, such is the din of war!
Página 98 - On flesh days, (that is, when meat was not forbidden by the Catholic religion), through the year, breakfast for my lord and lady was a loaf of bread, two manchets, a quart of beer, a quart of wine, half a chine of mutton, or a chine of beef boiled.
Página 55 - AND fell the fwifteft in the race, faid the king, the firft to bend the bow ? Thou fcarce haft been known to me : why did young Ryno fall ? But fleep thou foftly on Lena, Fingal fhall foon behold thee. Soon fhall my voice be heard no more, and my footfteps ceafe to be feen. The bards will tell of Fingal's name ; the ftones will talk of me. But, Ryno, thou art low indeed, thou haft not received thy fame. Ullin, ftrike the harp for Ryno ; tell what the* chief would have
Página 104 - Now have we many chimneys ; and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses ; then had we none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good-man and his family from the quack or pose, wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted.
Página 61 - Uthal fell beneath my fword ; and the fons of Berrathon fled. — It was then I faw him in his beauty, and the tear hung in my eye. Thou art fallen *, young tree, I faid, with all thy beauty round thee.