| James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 Seiten
...Zealand. Indeed, Edmund BurJca to Dr. William Robertson — On the receipt of Ms History of America, you have made a noble use of the advantages you have...have hardly done justice to the savage character. There remains before you a great field. •" Periculosee plenum opus alese Tractas, et incedis per... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1984 - 512 Seiten
...had. You have employd Philosophy to judge on Manners; and from manners you have drawn new rescources for Philosophy. I only think that in one or two points you have hardly done justice to the savage Character.4 There remains before you a great field — Periculosae plenum opus aleae tractas, et incedis... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1984 - 512 Seiten
...Abyssinia. The erratick manners of Tartary, and of arabia. The Savage State of North America, and of New Zealand. Indeed you have made a noble use of the advantages you have had. You have employd Philosophy to judge on Manners; and from manners you have drawn new rescources for Philosophy.... | |
| Stewart J. Brown, Stewart Jay Brown - 1997 - 298 Seiten
...the contemporary world. What is less often quoted is Burke's throwaway remark ending the same letter: You have employed philosophy to judge on manners,...points you have hardly done justice to the savage character.23 That urbane understatement was, of course, nothing compared to the fury of the creole... | |
| Daniel I. O'Neill - 2010 - 306 Seiten
...Abyssinia. The erratic manners of Tartary, and of arabia. The Savage State of North America, and of New Zealand. Indeed you have made a noble use of the...and from manners you have drawn new resources for philosophy.101 Burke agreed with Robertson and the other Scottish Enlightenment historians that the... | |
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