History of Civilization in England, Volume 2

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Thereupon the Protestant preachers said that the nobles were insti
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The decay of Spain in the seventeenth century was connected with
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The clergy finding themselves despised by the governing class united
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the Moors 4250
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Eff of this expulsion in impoverishing Spain
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In 1700 when affairs were at their worst the Austrian dynasty
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Who endeavoured to improve the country by weakening the Church 6870
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Government attempted to remedy this ignorance by calling in for
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The influence of foreigners in Spain was displayed in the expulsion
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Still Charles III effected great improvements from which on a
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Summary of what was accomplished for Spain by the government
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In the nineteenth century political reformers again endeavoured
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Nothing can weaken superstition but knowledge
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Besides failing it produced his own destruction
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CHAPTER II
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like James II and James I allied himself with the clergy
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Irish invasion of Scotland
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The injuries which these invasions inflicted upon Scotland stopped
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They asserted that miracles were wrought in their behalf and often
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Evidence of the scanty population of the Scotch towns 141144
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The municipal element being thus imperfect the only ally which
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The first manifestation of this rebellious spirit was the attack on
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of the Scotch clergy
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CHAPTER III
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The Scotch before they would crown Charles II compelled him
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Their power however was too deeply rooted to be shaken and
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As the nobles took the opposite side and as the people had no influ
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Struggle between the upper classes and the clergy respecting episco
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In 1542 the nobles openly refused obedience to James V and their
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One cause of the decline of their power was the Union with Eng
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The nobles thinking that they ought to have it took it into their
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CHAPTER VI
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Hence the secular philosophy of the eighteenth century though
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Hutchesons philosophy
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His Theory of Moral Sentiments and his Wealth
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That conclusion was entirely speculative and unsupported by expe
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Humes philosophy
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The laws of heat
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half of the eighteenth century
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Watts invention of the steamengine and discovery of the compo
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This is well worthy of notice because the inductive method being
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Contrast between the method by which he as a Scotchman discov
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By this means he made a large number of curious physiological dis
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Nature of the evidence of the supposed difference between the
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His want of imagination
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He refused to inquire into the truth of the principles from which
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In his pathological inquiries he took into account the malformations
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This is the more observable because his discoveries respecting dis
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posed to his
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His method was deductive and does not come under any of the rules
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Notwithstanding this difference the deductive method was supreme
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These superstitions are eminently irreligious and are everywhere
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His Natural History of Religion
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In 1610 James backed by the power of England forced ep scopacy
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TitleHistory of Civilization in England, Volume 2
History of Civilization in England, Henry Thomas Buckle
AuthorHenry Thomas Buckle
PublisherD. Appleton, 1883
  
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