 | Edmund Law - 1774 - 528 pages
...creation, I know no ground fufficient to believe (v). Ift $ ' Arts and fciences grow up, flourifh. decay, die, and return again under the fame or other...forms, after periods which appear long to us, however fliortthey may be, compared with the immenfe duration of the fyftems of created being. Thefe periods... | |
 | Edmund Law (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1774 - 504 pages
...creation, I know no ground fufficient to believe (v). In ยง ' Arts and fciences grow up, flourifh, decay, die, and return again under the fame or other...forms, after periods which appear long to us, however fhort they may be, compared with the immenfe duration of the fyftems of created being. Thefe periods... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1793 - 664 pages
...anew. Our phyfical and moral fyftem* are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from generation .to corruption, and from corruption to generation...forms, after periods which appear long to us, however fhort they may be, compared with the immenfe duration of the fyftems of created being. Thefe periods... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 508 pages
...anew. Our physical and moral systems are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from generation to corruption, and from corruption to generation ;...civility, and from civility to barbarity. Arts and ,.... 1 sciences sciences grow up, flourish, decay, die, and return again under the same, or other... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 558 pages
...anew. Our physical and moral systems are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from generation to corruption, and from corruption to generation;...civility, and from civility to barbarity. Arts and sciences grow up, flourish, decay, die, and return again under the same, or other forms, after periods... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 552 pages
...anew. Our physical and moral systems are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from generation to corruption, and from corruption to generation;...civility, and from civility to barbarity. Arts and sciences grow up, flourish, decay, die, and return again under the same, or other forms, after periods... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 pages
...believed that "physical and moral systems are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from generation to corruption, and from corruption to generation;...barbarity to civility, and from civility to barbarity." Of course, 14. On the various doctrines of decline, see Peter Burke, "Tradition and Experience: The... | |
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Our physical and moral systems are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from generation to corruption, and from corruption to generation; from ignorance to knowledge, and from knowledge to ignorance; from barbarity to civility, and from civility... 