 | 1795 - 432 sayfa
...debases the people, and for ever prevents all improvements : a people governed after such a manner are slaves in the full and proper sense of the word...ever aspire to any refinements of taste or reason. Eloquence certainly springs up more naturally in popular governments. Emulation too, in every accomplishment,... | |
 | David Hume - 1806 - 226 sayfa
...; and with negligence or tyranny, as belonging to another. A people, governed after such a manner, are slaves in the full and proper sense of the word;...therefore, that the arts and sciences should take their rise in a monarchy, is to expect a contradiction. Before these refinements have taken place, the monarch... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1817 - 90 sayfa
...despotic monarch, governing a large tract of country, never conceives the idea of securing the happiness of his people by established laws, but delegates his...take their first rise in a monarchy, is to expect 30 a contradiction." But although this sentiment in various forms, and with various modifications,... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1817 - 88 sayfa
...negligence or tyranny as belonging to another." "A people governed after such a manner," he adds, (f are slaves, in the full and proper sense of the word,...take their "first rise in a monarchy, is to expect H a contradiction." But although this sentiment in various forms, and with various modifications, has... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 564 sayfa
...; and with negligence or tyranny, as belonging to another. A people, governed after such a manner, are slaves in the full and proper sense of the word ; and it is impossible they can ever a pire to any refinements of taste or reason. They dare not so much as pretend to enjoy the necessaries... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 562 sayfa
...; and with negligence or tyranny, as belonging td another. A people, governed after such a manner, are slaves in the full and proper sense of the word...take their first rise in a monarchy, is to expect a contra-' diction. Before these refinements have taken place, the monarch is ignorant and uninstructed... | |
 | David Hume - 1842 - 570 sayfa
...; and with negligence or tyranny, as belonging t« another. A people, governed after such a manner, are slaves in the full and proper sense of the word ; and it ia impossible they can ever a pire to any refinements of taste or reason. They dare not so much as... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 602 sayfa
...own; and with negligence or tyranny, as belonging to another. A people, governed after such a manner, are slaves in the full and proper sense of the word;...that the arts and sciences should take their first risa in a monarchy, is to expect a contradiction. Before these refinements have taken place, the monarch... | |
 | 1887 - 230 sayfa
...likely to be held as synonymous with Right. " A people governed after such a manner," says HUME,* " are slaves in the full and proper sense of the word;...impossible they can ever aspire to any refinements of taste and reason." It was practically to put an end to such a system of tyranny, that the Frith-Gilds were... | |
 | David Hume - 1889 - 530 sayfa
...own; and with negligence or tyranny, as belonging to another. A people, governed after such a manner, are slaves in the full and proper sense of the word;...impossible they can ever aspire to any refinements or taste or reason. They dare not so much as pretend to enjoy the necessaries of life in plenty or... | |
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To expect, therefore, that the arts and sciences should take their first risa in a monarchy, is to expect a contradiction. 
