| David Hume - 1809 - 868 sayfa
...can be reduced to any general principles. My first observation on this head is, That it is impossible for the arts and sciences to arise, at first, among any people, unless tliat people enjoy the blessing of a free government. In the first ages of the world, when men are... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 580 sayfa
...improvement or deterioration of the human race. That the enjoyment of civil liberty is indispensable to the cultivation of literature, is an opinion which...people, unless that people enjoy the blessing of a free governaient." Tn illustrating this position, he observes that a despotic monarch, governing a large... | |
| 1818 - 616 sayfa
...improvement or deterioration of the human race. That the enjoyment of civil liberty is indispensable to the cultivation of literature, is an opinion which...Mr. Hume, " for the arts and sciences to arise at fiist among any people, unless that people enjoy the blessing of a free government." In illustrating... | |
| David Hume - 1825 - 572 sayfa
...reduced to any general principles. My Grst observation on this head is, Titat it is impossible for Uie arts and sciences to arise, at first, among any people, unless that people enjoy the blessing of a free governjtteut. In ilk- first ages of the world, when men are as yet barbarous and ignorant, they seek... | |
| American Whig Society - 1871 - 290 sayfa
...subject of frequent remark. Thus Hume lays it down as a general proposition, " That it is impossible for the arts and sciences to arise, at first, among...any people, unless that people enjoy the blessing ot a free government." But to the influence of the second of these causes, popular education, sufficient... | |
| Ramiro de Maeztu - 1916 - 294 sayfa
...essay, " Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences." In it he says, " that it is impossible for the arts and sciences to arise, at first, among any people, unless that people enjoy the blessings of a free government." Free government means in this essay the antithesis to absolute monarchital... | |
| John Christian Laursen - 1992 - 272 sayfa
...Progress of the Arts and Sciences" of 1742 he observed that "it is impossible for the arts and the sciences to arise, at first, among any people, unless that people enjoy the blessings of a free government", but "though the only proper nursery of these noble plants be a free... | |
| David Hume, Stuart D. Warner, Donald W. Livingston - 1994 - 292 sayfa
...'maxims' synonymously. • In politics, "every man must be supposed a knave."23 • "It is impossible for the arts and sciences to arise, at first, among...people unless that people enjoy the blessing of a free government."2 • "There is nothing more favourable to the rise of politeness and learning than a number... | |
| Gabriel R. Ricci, Paul Edward Gottfried - 116 sayfa
...painters, and poets. Though some may have taken heart with David Hume's assertion that "It is impossible for the arts and sciences to arise at first, among any people unless that people enjoy the blessings of free government," freedom in America seemed to inspire the expansion of merchant-capitalism... | |
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