 If there was a time in which he had his acquaintance with his own species to make, and his faculties to acquire, it is a time of which we have no record, and in relation to which our opinions can serve no purpose, and are supported by no evidence.  Annual Register of World Events - Page 3071800Full view - About this book
 | Adam Ferguson - Civilization - 1768 - 452 pages
...With him the fociety appears to be as old as the individual, and the ufe of the tongue as univerfal as that of the hand or the foot. If there was a time...his faculties to acquire, it is a time of which we * RouJJcau fur Torigiae de I'inegaUte parmi.les homines. f Traite de 1'efprit. • • have no record,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1768 - 642 pages
...With him the fociety appears to be as old as the individual, and the ufe of the tongue as univerfal as that of the hand or the foot. If there was a time in which he had his acquaintance with his owa fpecies to make, and his faculties to acquire, it is a time of whidi we have no record, and in... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - Civil society - 1773 - 502 pages
...With him the fociety appears to be as old as the individual, and the ufe of the tongue as univerfal as that of the hand or the foot. If there was a time...to which our opinions can ferve no purpofe, and are fupported by no evidence* are often tempted into thefe boundlefs regions of ignorance or conjecture,... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - History - 1789 - 442 pages
...With him the fociety appears to be as old as the individual , and the ufe of the tongue as univerfal as that of the hand or the foot. If there was a time...record, and in relation to which our opinions can ferv6 no purpofe , and are fupported by no evidence. WE are often tempted into thefe boundlefs regions... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 600 pages
...appears to be as old as the( individual, and the ufc of the tongue as univcrfal as that of the hind or the foot. If there was a time in which he had his...to which our opinions can ferve no purpofe, and are fupportcd by no evidence. — We fpeak of art as dtftinguimed from nature; but art itfelf is natural... | |
 | History - 1800 - 596 pages
...With him the fociety appears to he as old as the individua), and the ufe of the tongue as univerfal as that of the hand or the foot. If there was a time...acquire, it is a time of which we have no record, and in reía, tion to which our opinions can ferve no purpofe, and are fupported by no evidence. — We fpeak... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - Civilization - 1809 - 484 pages
...With him the society appears to be as old as the individual, and the use of the tongue as universal as that of the hand or the foot. If there was a time in which he had his acquaintance with his own species to make, and his faculties to acquire, it is a time of which we have no record, and in relation... | |
 | Religion - 1840 - 1078 pages
...avoid the extravagance of the former, and of the ultra Epicureans, for he adds, a few pages after : " If there was a time in which he had his acquaintance with his own species to make, and his faculties to acquire, it is a time of which we have no record, and in relation... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 530 pages
...avoid the extravagance of the former, and of theultra Epicureans, for he adds, a few pages after : " If there was a time in which he had his acquaintance with his own species to make, and his faculties to acquire, it is a time of which we have no record, and in relation... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Literature - 1841 - 662 pages
...With him the society appears to be as old as the individual, and the use of the tongue as universal as that of the hand or the foot. If there was a time in which he had his acquaintance with his own species to make, and his faculties to acquire, it is a time of which we have no record, and in relation... | |
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