 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.  A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections ... - Page 212by Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - 1794Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 448 pages
...remains a more humble " source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition, of the most...nations, represent the human savage, naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language *. From this abject... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 446 pages
...source of comfort and hope. The discoveries * of ancient and modern navigators, and the do-j mestic 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 *. From this abject... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 430 pages
...remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition, of the most...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... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...View of Society in Europe. • GIBBON. ;/.• The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, •nd 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. From this abject condition,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and niodern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition, of the most...nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition,... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Ethnology - 1834 - 278 pages
...traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savnge naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of, ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen... | |
 | 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 savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition,... | |
 | 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 savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition,... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Ethnology - 1847 - 524 pages
...do not * " The discoveries of ancient and modern navigation, and the domestic history or traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and hody, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition,... | |
 | Alexander Strachan - Methodist Church - 1853 - 550 pages
...discoveries of ancient and modern navigation," says Gibbon, "and the domestic history or traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human...of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually risen... | |
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