 | Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - France - 1794 - 542 pages
...barbarous state to -a state of extraordinary intellectual powers. All discoveries, both ancient and modern, and the domestic history or tradition of the most...nations, represent the human savage, naked both in body and mind, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. But this state, I... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1802 - 450 pages
...the do^ meftic hiftory, or tradition,, of the moft enlightened nations, repreient the human favage, naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almoft of language '°. From this abjeft condition, perhaps the primitive and unirerfal ftate of man,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 440 pages
...speculations be found doubtful or fallacious, there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators,...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the k It would be an easy, though tedious,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 430 pages
...speculations be found doubtful or fallacious, there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators,...enlightened nations, represent the human savage, naked ooth in mind and body, and destitute of /aws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language.' From this... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 528 pages
...of poets, phitosophers, aud historians. I shall therefore content myself with appealing to lhe Frorp this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and niodern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition,...and almost of language. From this abject condition, he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilise the earth, to traverse the ocean, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 542 pages
...savage, naked both in mind and body and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of languagei1. From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 468 pages
...speculations be found doubtful or fallacious, there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators,...of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. (10) From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state ot man, he has gradually... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Polynesians - 1834 - 278 pages
...elegant historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, " and the domestic history or traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens." * , * " Gibbon's Decline and... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Polynesians - 1834 - 276 pages
...elegant historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, " and the domestic history or traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens." * * " Gibbon's Decline and... | |
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The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history or tradition of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. 
