On the Strength of Nations, Band 59Smith, Elder, 1859 - 300 Seiten |
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... followed , as one of the consequences of such an oligarchy , that the number of qualified citizens went on continually diminishing ; and of this diminished number , the proportion of those who were needy grew * Grote : History of Greece ...
... followed , as one of the consequences of such an oligarchy , that the number of qualified citizens went on continually diminishing ; and of this diminished number , the proportion of those who were needy grew * Grote : History of Greece ...
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... followed ever since the victorious battle of Ikonium in 1386 , the European troops occupy the left wing , the Asiatic troops the right wing , the Janissaries the centre . The Sultan , or the Grand Vizir , sur- rounded by the national ...
... followed ever since the victorious battle of Ikonium in 1386 , the European troops occupy the left wing , the Asiatic troops the right wing , the Janissaries the centre . The Sultan , or the Grand Vizir , sur- rounded by the national ...
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... followed a very few years after Plato's death . The world was too young then to have furnished data for a political philosophy , but it is wonderful how truly the inspiration of Plato had divined what the experience of the succeeding ...
... followed a very few years after Plato's death . The world was too young then to have furnished data for a political philosophy , but it is wonderful how truly the inspiration of Plato had divined what the experience of the succeeding ...
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... followed an- other , and one long harangue followed another long harangue , and where there was no opportunity for questioning each speaker , and sifting the accuracy of his assertions , or testing the soundness of his views , which he ...
... followed an- other , and one long harangue followed another long harangue , and where there was no opportunity for questioning each speaker , and sifting the accuracy of his assertions , or testing the soundness of his views , which he ...
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... followed by the fall of Rome , while Scipio's victory at Zama was followed by the ruin of Carthage ? Precisely be- cause Rome had a substantial militia , and Carthage had no such militia . " From the end of the second Carthaginian war ...
... followed by the fall of Rome , while Scipio's victory at Zama was followed by the ruin of Carthage ? Precisely be- cause Rome had a substantial militia , and Carthage had no such militia . " From the end of the second Carthaginian war ...
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Seite 1 - When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace ; but when a stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Seite 262 - ... the Spaniards comforted themselves with the belief, that they were devils, and not men, who had destroyed them in such a manner. So much a strong resolution of bold and courageous men can bring to pass, that no resistance...
Seite 164 - Sandwich, among other things, that of all the old army now you cannot see a man begging about the streets ; but what ? You shall have this captain turned a shoemaker; the lieutenant, a baker ; this a brewer ; that a haberdasher ; this common soldier, a porter ; and every man in his apron and frock, &c., as if they never had done any thing else : whereas, the others go with their belts and swords, swearing, and cursing, and stealing; running into people's houses, by force oftentimes, to carry away...
Seite 255 - ... a set of the greatest geniuses for government that the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause...
Seite 209 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.
Seite 231 - But in other, and in but too many instances, the glens of the Highlands have been drained, not of their superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will be one day found to have been as shortsighted as it is unjust and selfish.
Seite 119 - I met with these pieces in Mason's English Collection, one of my school-books. The two first books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read since, were, The Life of Hannibal, and The History of Sir William Wallace...
Seite 265 - He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them. He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience what mighty things they could do if they were resolved, and taught them to fight in fire as well as upon...
Seite 210 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen pound by year or more, and is not able to do anything for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.
Seite 195 - Secondly, taxes upon the necessaries of life have nearly the same effect upon the circumstances of the people as a poor soil and a bad climate.