A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind: In Ancient and Modern TimesA. Constable and Company, 1809 - 338 Seiten |
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Seite 169 - In omni domo nudi ac sordidi, in hos artus, in haec corpora, quae miramur, excrescunt. Sua quemque mater uberibus alit, nec ancillis ac nutricibus delegantur. Dominum ac servum nullis educationis deliciis dignoscas : inter eadem pecora, in eadem humo degunt ; donec aetas separet ingenuos, virtus agnoscat.
Seite 98 - Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war ; then, with unwearied hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The plough, and greatly independent lived.
Seite 189 - ... parts, and express their mutual relation. If they bear no proportion to each other, the term is only invented for the less, and marks its distinction from the whole. Thus man and "woman, matter and servant, father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms.
Seite 15 - A rude and barbarous people, living by hunting, by fishing, or by pasturage, or on the spontaneous product of the earth, without agriculture, can never be so numerous as a people inhabiting the same tract of land, who are well skilled in agriculture, as uncultivated can never maintain so many inhabitants as cultivated lands.
Seite 248 - ... as if each had a small fortune, secure and independent. Enormous cities are, besides, destructive to society, beget vice and disorder of all kinds, starve the remoter provinces, and even starve themselves, by the prices to which they raise all provisions.
Seite 252 - when the Roman authors " complain that Italy, which formerly exported " corn, became dependent on all the provinces " for its daily bread, they never ascribed this " alteration to the increase of its inhabitants, but " to the neglect of tillage and agriculture...
Seite 224 - A general insurrection of the Irish spread itself over the whole country, in such an inhuman and barbarous manner, that there were forty or fifty thousand of the English protestants murdered, before they suspected themselves to be in any danger, or could provide for their defence, by drawing together into towns, or strong houses.
Seite 313 - Multa praeterea de sideribus atque eorum motu, de mundi ac terrarum magnitudine, de rerum natura, de deorum immortalium vi ac potestate, disputant et juventuti tradunt.
Seite 227 - ... an indication, that there was not in Italy, at that time, much more order, tranquillity, and settled police, than there is at present among the Tartars.