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" How can flaves, educated under the menacing brow of a mafter, ftifle, at the approach of a hardy enemy, the habitual fenfations of fear they have contracted from arbitrary power ? How can men fo debafed, without elevation of mind, accuftomed to trample... "
The modern part of An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the ... - Page 495
1783
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Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 46

1770 - 440 pages
...Roman fwords, the habitual fenlktiuns of fear they had contracted from arbitrary power f How could men, fo debafed, without elevation of mind, accuftomed...yielding to the magnanimity, the policy, the valour of the Roman«, and (hew themfelves equally daftardly in counlej, and in the field of battle ? If the...
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De L'esprit, Or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties

Helvétius - Conduct of life - 1759 - 372 pages
...the Roman fwords, the habkuaj fenfations of fear they had contracted from arbitrary power ? How could men, fo debafed, without elevation of mind, accuftomed...yielding to the magnanimity, the policy, the valour of the Romans, and ihew themfelves equally daftardly in counfel, and in the field of battle ? If the Egyptians,...
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An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 43

World history - 1765 - 622 pages
...other bring on its deftruiSrion. How can flaves, educated under the menacing t>cow of a mailer^ ftiflc, at the approach of a hardy enemy, the habitual fenfations...the valour of a bold enterprifing people ? . how can daitardly flaves refift a fre'e and powerful nation ? The tyrant, to make ufe of arbitrary power with...
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The Modern Part of an Universal History,: From the Earliest Account of Time

World history - 1765 - 614 pages
...confequences of their form ""/"• of government, and muft forr.e time or other bring on its" deftru&ion. How can flaves, educated under the menacing brow of...power ? how can men fo debafed, without elevation cf mind, accuftomed to trample on the weak, and to cringe before the powerful, avoid yielding to the...
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De l'esprit; or, Essays on the mind. Transl. To Which are now prefixed, a ...

Claude Adrien Helvétius - 1807 - 576 pages
...had contracted from arbitrary power? How could men, so debased, without elevation of mind, accustomed to trample on the weak, and to cringe before the powerful,...yielding to the magnanimity, the policy, the valour, of the Romans, and shew themselves equally dastardly in counsel and in the field of battle? If tte Egyptians,...
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