Comparative Politics: Six Lectures Read Before the Royal Institution in January and February, 1873. With The Unity of History. The Rede Lecture Read Before the University of Cambridge, May 29, 1872

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Macmillan & Company, 1873 - 522 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 479 - Suscipere tam inimicitias, seu patris, seu propinqui, quam amicitias, necesse est : nec implacabiles durant. Luitur enim etiam homicidium certo armentorum ac pecorum numero, recipitque satisfactionem universa domus : utiliter in publicum ; quia periculosiores sunt inimicitiae juxta libertatem.
Sayfa 407 - Agriculturae non student ; majorque pars eorum victus in lacte, caseo, carne consistit ; neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios ; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum qui una coierunt, quantum et quo loco visum est agri attribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Sayfa 447 - ... eyes, and it was not without a melancholy pride that they saw the terrible conqueror himself yield to the spell of the Roman name, and do homage to the enduring majesty of their legitimate sovereign e.
Sayfa 79 - Where the rich man helped the poor and the poor man loved the great, may seem incredibly naive.
Sayfa 486 - Homer, in order to establish among them an union, which was so necessary for their safety, grounds his poem upon the discords of the several Grecian Princes who were engaged in a confederacy against an Asiatic Prince, and the several advantages which the enemy gained by such their discords.
Sayfa 303 - My position then is that, in all our studies of history and language — and the study of language, besides all that it is in other ways, is one most important branch of the study of history — we must cast away all distinctions of ' ancient ' and ' modern,' of ' dead ' and ' living,' and must boldly grapple with the great fact of the unity of history.
Sayfa 396 - The basis of the whole was the house, hearth, or family, — a number of which, greater or less, composed the Gens or Genos. This gens was therefore a clan, sept, or enlarged, and partly factitious, brotherhood, bound together by, — I.
Sayfa 1 - the establishment of the Comparative Method of study has been the greatest intellectual achievement of our time. It has carried light and order into whole branches of human knowledge which before were shrouded in darkness and confusion
Sayfa 377 - Homer's type of an alien and less advanced civilisation; for the almost physical loathing which a primitive community feels for men of widely different manners from its own usually expresses itself by describing them as monsters, such as giants, or even (which is almost always the case in Oriental mythology) as demons.
Sayfa 407 - ... all standing together as one unit in respect of other similar communities ; all governed by the same judges and led by the same captains ; all sharing in the same religious rites ; and all known to themselves and to their neighbours by one general name.

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