 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...improving and civilizing the world than really belongs to them. What they have done is in reality little. The beginning of civilization is the discovery of...preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ; and the love of power induces... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Economics - 1836 - 274 pages
...advance beyond that which he now possesses. The beginning of civilization (says Sir Humphrey Davy) is in the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, and luxuries. Man first begins to till the earth with some rude instrument like a pointed stone, he... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...greater share than really belongs to them in the work : while what they have done is in reality little. The beginning of civilization is the discovery of...preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority, to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...much greater share than really belongs to them in the work : what they have done is in reality little. The beginning of civilization is the discovery of...preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ; and the love of power induces... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...greater share than really belongs to them in the work ;— what they have dorfls is in reality little. The beginning of civilization is the discovery of some useful arts by which men acquire propenj. comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving then: leads to laws and social... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...greater share than really belongs to them in the work ; — what they have done is in reality little. The beginning of civilization is the discovery of...preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ; and the love of power induces... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...really belongs to them in the work ; — what they have done is in reality little. The beginning a civilization is the discovery of some useful arts...The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to law and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations... | |
 | John Timbs - Inventions - 1860 - 478 pages
...8QUABE. I860. TO THE KEADER. SIB HTJMPHEEY DAVY, in his last work of charming philosophy, remarks : " The beginning of civilization is the discovery of...preserving them leads to laws and social institutions, The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ; and the love of power induces... | |
 | John Timbs - Discoveries in science - 1860 - 432 pages
...SIB HUMPHRY DAVY, in his last work of charming philosophy, remarks : " The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men...preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ; and the love of power induces... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - Inventions - 1883 - 700 pages
...fashioning into implements, utensils and ornaments. " The beginning of civilization," says Sir H. Davy, " is the discovery of some useful arts by which men acquire property, comfort and luxuries." The art of making bronze gave additional value to the property of men and aided... | |
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... what they have done is in reality little. The beginning of civilization is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The... 
