 | Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 492 pages
...So many different feats of government will highly tend to the improvement of all arts and fciences ; and afford great variety of entertainment to all foreigners and others of a curious and inquifitive genius, as the ancient cities of Greece did. I perceive now, iaid Sir Edw-rd, the tendency... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 474 pages
...So many different feats of government will highly tend to the improvement of all arts and iciencesj and afford great variety of entertainment to all foreigners and others of a curious and inquifitive genius, as the ancient cities of Greece did. I perceive now, laid Sir Edw-rd, the tendency... | |
 | James Hall (of Walthamstow.) - Scotland - 1807 - 358 pages
...army, under the Earl of War, received a check from the forces of George I. commanded by John, Duke of f The famous Mr. Fletcher, of Saltoun, says, that the...the four for Ireland, Dublin, Cork, 'Galloway, and Londondeny; the two for Scotland, Stirling, and Inverness. Whether some other places more conveniently... | |
 | J. Morrison Davidson - Church and state - 1890 - 148 pages
...into their hands of doing good to their fellow citizens. So many different seats of government will highly tend to the improvement of all arts and sciences,...foreigners and others of a curious and inquisitive genius, as the ancient cities of Greece did." Here we have the very essence of Fletcher's argument against... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - History - 1997 - 304 pages
...into their hands of doing good to their fellow citizens. So many different seats of government will highly tend to the improvement of all arts and sciences;...foreigners and others of a curious and inquisitive genius, as the ancient cities of Greece did. I perceive now, said Sir Edw-rd, the tendency of all this discourse.... | |
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... of luxury, and debauch them from doing good: whereas the offices of these lesser governments extending only over a moderate number of people, will be duly executed, and many men have occasions put into their hands of doing good to their fellow citizens.... 