 | David Hume - 1758 - 568 pages
...which have ever been obferved among mankind. Would you know the fentiments, inclinations, and courfe of life of the GREEKS and ROMANS? Study well the temper and aftions of U u the the FRENCH and ENGLISH. You cannot be much miftakcn in transferring to the former... | |
 | David Hume - 1779 - 548 pages
...which have ever been obferved among mankind. Would you know the fentiments, inclinations, and courfe of life of the Greeks and Romans ? Study well the temper and actions of the French and Knglifh . You cannot be much miftaken in transferring to the former moft of the obfervations, which... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 pages
...the same causes, ambition, avarice, selflove, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit ; these passions, mixed in various degrees, and distributed...enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind."* The reader will readily perceive, that this is a most important doctrine, and supported by eminent... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1846 - 682 pages
...the sun* causes. Ambition, avarice, self-love, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit ; these passions, mixed in various degrees, and distributed...world, and still are, the source of all the actions and enterprizes which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments, inclinations,... | |
 | James H. MACCULLOH - 1852 - 542 pages
...the same causes. Ambition, avarice, self-love, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit; these passions mixed in various degrees, and distributed...enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Mankind arc so much the same in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange... | |
 | 1876 - 832 pages
...of Dover. It is not otherwise with the ocean of human experience. " Would you," said David Hume, " know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and the Romans ? Study well the temper and actions of the French and the English." Shakespeare fascinates... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...the same causes. Ambition, avarice, self-love, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit ; these passions, mixed in various degrees, and distributed...beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all actions and enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1856 - 412 pages
...propriety and philosophic good sense of Mr. Hume's remarks. — " Would you know," says this writer, " the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the GREEKS and ROMANS 1 Study well the temper and actions of the FRENCH and ENGLISH. You cannot be much mistaken in transferring... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 pages
...and civilization being but the different hues of passions and interests which are for ever identical among mankind. Would you know the sentiments, inclinations,...course of life of the Greeks and Romans ? Study well, says David Hume, the temper and actions of the French and English. He denies that the earth, water,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pages
...been, from the beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all the actions and enterprizes which have ever been observed among mankind. Would...inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Eomans ? Study well the temper and actions of the French and English. You cannot be much mistaken in... | |
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The same motives always produce the same actions ; the same events follow from the same causes. Ambition, avarice, selflove, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit ; these VOL. IV. G passions, mixed in . various degrees, and distributed through... 
