 ... the sudden, violent, and unprepared revolutions incident to barbarians are so much guided by caprice, and terminate so often in cruelty, that they disgust us by the uniformity of their appearance; and it is rather fortunate for letters that they are...  The history of Devonshire - Seite 83von Thomas Moore (writer on Devon.) - 1829Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | David Hume - 1775 - 424 Seiten
...caprice, and terminate fo often in cruelty, that they difguft us by the uniformity of their appearance ; and it is rather fortunate for letters that they are buried in filence and oblivion. The only certain means, by which nations can indulge their curiofity in refearches... | |
 | David Hume - 1789 - 452 Seiten
...uniformity of their appearance ; and it is rather fortunate for letters that they are buried in*f)le»ce and oblivion. The only certain means, by which nations can indulge their curiofity in researches concerning their remote origin , is to confider the language, manners, and... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 540 Seiten
...caprice and terminate so often in cruelty, that they disgust us by the uniformity of their appearance; and it is rather fortunate for letters that they are...nations can indulge their curiosity in researches VoL. I. B CHAP. concerning their remote origin, is to consider the lan1 guage, manners, and customs... | |
 | James Mill - 1817 - 688 Seiten
...caprice, and terminate so often in cruelty, that they disgust us by the uniformity of their appearance, and it is rather fortunate for letters that they are buried in silence and oblivion," * we have perhaps but little to regret in the total absence of Hindu records. f • * Hume's Hist.... | |
 | David Hume - 1819 - 432 Seiten
...caprice, and terminate so often in cruelty, that they disgust us by the uniformity of their appearance ; and it is rather fortunate for letters that they are...their remote origin, is to consider the language, manners and customs of their ancestors, and to compare them with those of the neighbouring nations.... | |
 | James Mill - 1820 - 496 Seiten
...caprice, and terminate so often in cruelty, that they disgust us by the uniformity of their appearance, and it is rather fortunate for letters that they are buried in silence and oblivion,"1 we have perhaps but little to regret in the total absence of Hindu records.2 ' Hume's Hist.... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot - 1820 - 1058 Seiten
...pushed their researches too far into the exploits and adventures of their ancestors, and .thinks it rather fortunate for letters, " that they are buried in silence and oblivion :" but in my mind, it would seem a reproach to the Deity, to suppose, that man, in the state of nature,... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 480 Seiten
...caprice, and terminate so often in cruelty, that they disgust us by the uniformity of their appearance ; and it is rather fortunate for letters that they are...their remote origin, is to consider the language, manners, and customs, of their ancestors, and to compare them with those of the neighbouring nations.... | |
 | Vans Kennedy - 1831 - 666 Seiten
...caprice, and terminate so often in cruelty, that they disgust us by the uniformity of their appearance, and it is rather fortunate for letters, that they are buried in silence and oblivion, we have perhaps but little to regret in the total absence of Hindu records." * what is called the Oriental... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 Seiten
...caprice, and terminate so often in cruelty, that they disgust by the uniformity of their appearance ; and it is rather fortunate for letters, that they are buried in silence and oblivion." This train of reflections was suggested to his mind by the contemplation of the origines of the English... | |
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