 Wherever the exterior condition of man becomes enlarged, quickened, and improved ; wherever the intellectual nature of man distinguishes itself by its energy, brilliancy, and its grandeur ; wherever these two signs concur, and they often do so, notwithstanding...  Orations: Greek orators - Page 1671900Full view - About this book
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1838 - 358 pages
...reveals itself by two symptoms : the progress of society, the progress of individuals ; the amelioration of the social system, and the expansion of the mind...what has been the character of every great crisis favourable to civilization, if we examine those great events which all acknowledge to have carried... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1838 - 580 pages
...reveals itself by two symptoms : the progress of society, the progress of individuals ; the amelioration of the social system, and the expansion of the mind...civilization, from a simple and rational inquiry into tbe meaning of the term. This view of it is confirmed by History. If we ask of her what has been the... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1838 - 352 pages
...reveals itself by two symptoms : the progress of society, the progress of individuals ; the amelioration of the social system, and the expansion of the mind...civilization, from a simple and rational inquiry into tbe meaning of the term. This view of it is confirmed by History. If we ask of her what has been the... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1846 - 342 pages
...distinguishes itself by its energy, brilliancy, and its grandeur ; wherever these two signs conci""> an(l they often do so, notwithstanding the gravest imperfections...proclaims and applauds civilization. Such, if I mistake Jiot, would be the notion mankind in general would form of civilization, from a simple and rational... | |
 | William Frederick Van Amringe - 1848 - 742 pages
...intellectual nature of man distinguishes itself by its energy, brilliancy, and its grandeur ; whereever these two signs concur, and they often do so, notwithstanding...system, there man proclaims and applauds civilization." The imagination which can discover any analogy between the domestication of animals, and the civilization... | |
 | François Guizot, Guizot (M., François) - 1850 - 330 pages
...: the melioration of the"sociai system, and tlia-EXpansion of tlip~njjnit anH fap.nlt.ifig of rpi"v Wherever the exterior condition of man becomes enlarged,...This view of it is confirmed by History. If we ask "f V°rw^at, h?9Jjejm the charj. acter of every great crisis farorablaJta civilization, if we examine... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1862 - 336 pages
...civilization ; — two circumstances are necessary to its existence — it lives upon two conditions — it reveals itself by two symptoms : the progress of society,...confirmed by History. If we ask of her what has been the charicter of every great crisis favorable to civilization, if we examine those great events which all... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1865 - 338 pages
...civilization ; — two circumstances are necessary to its existence — it lives upon two conditions — it reveals itself by two symptoms : the progress of society,...confirmed by History. If we ask of her what has been the char>.cter of every great crisis favorable to civilization, if we examine those great events which... | |
 | Ray Palmer - 1866 - 48 pages
...improved; wherever the intellectual nature of man distinguishes itself by its energy, brilliancy and grandeur ; wherever these two signs concur, and they...system, there man proclaims and applauds civilization." J * Gen. Hist. Civ., sec. 1, p. 19 ; 1st Am. Ed. fPres. Woolsey has noticed this among other defects... | |
 | Edward Lacy Garbett - 1869 - 366 pages
...intellectual nature of man distinguishes itself by its energy, brilliancy, and its grandeur ; wherever these signs concur — and they often do so, notwithstanding...— there man proclaims and applauds civilization." (Ibid. Lect. I. p. 10.) NOTE 2, p. 157. THE statistics of missionary work in New Zealand give the following... | |
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