Patriotism and Science: Some Studies in Historic Psychology

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Robert Bros., 1893 - 162 Seiten

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Seite 105 - All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Seite 39 - I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed...
Seite 101 - Yet, stranger, weep not ! for though premature his death, his life was glorious, enrolling him with the names of those immortal Statesmen and Commanders whose wisdom and intrepidity, in the course of this comprehensive and successful war, have extended the commerce, enlarged the dominion, and upheld the majesty of these kingdoms, beyond the idea of any former age.
Seite 44 - Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
Seite 76 - All politeness is owing to liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our corners and rough sides by a sort of amicable collision.
Seite 96 - ... like studies. It is not at all to our present purpose to compare this speculative and indeterminate kind of study with the rigorous, accurate education of England. The fault of the former is sometimes to produce a sort of lecturer in vacua, ignorant of exact pursuits, and diffusive of vague words. The English now and then produce a learned creature like a thistle, prickly with all facts, and incapable of all fruit.

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