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 | Michel Foucault - Philosophy - 1991 - 322 pages
...found? we may answer, It is here; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan." Like Hume's, Ferguson's man is 'destined from the first age of his being to invent and contrive'. Both... | |
 | James Conniff - Political Science - 1994 - 384 pages
...found? we may answer, it is here; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan," he undoubtedly struck a responsive chord in Burke. 93 IV A second approach to the problem of judgment... | |
 | David Bidney - Social Science - 596 pages
...found? We may answer, it is here; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan. While this active being is in the train of employing his talents, and of operating on the subjects around him,... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...found? we may answer, it is here; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan. While this active being is in the train of employing his talents, and of operating on the subjects around him,... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 pages
...the answer must be, "It is here; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the islands of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan." And, just as travel in space offers the spectacle of uniformity, so does travel in time: "The latest... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - History - 2001 - 452 pages
...found? we may answer, It is here; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan." He - and the masculine pronoun is important - has learned as little as possible which may differentiate... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - Civilització - 1789 - 448 pages
...colonade, do not more effectually coment their native inhabitant. IF we are nfkcd therefore, Where the ftate of nature is to be found ? we may anfwer,...Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan. While this active being is in the train of employing his talents, and of operating on the Aibjects around him,... | |
 | Roy Porter - History - 2000 - 772 pages
...found', We may answer, It is here; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan . . . If the palace be unnatural, the cottage is so no less; and the highest refinements of political... | |
 | Sankar Muthu - Philosophy - 2009 - 368 pages
...found? we may answer, It is here; and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan. While this active being is in the train of employing his talents, and of operating on the subjects around him,... | |
 | Alexander Broadie - History - 2003 - 386 pages
...that the State of Nature is 'here and it matters not whether we are understood to speak in the island of Great Britain, at the Cape of Good Hope, or the Straits of Magellan' (HCS 8). It equally follows that it matters not whether it is eighteenth or eighth century Britain.... | |
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