Notes on the History and Political Institutions of the Old World

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G.P. Putnam's, 1906 - 719 стор.
 

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CHINA
4
EGYPT
15
1966
22
49
73
54
81
31
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Сторінка 414 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Сторінка 52 - She must abandon the paternal fire, and henceforth invoke that of the husband. She must abandon her religion,' practise other rites, and pronounce other prayers. She must give up the god of her infancy, and put herself under the protection of a god whom she knows not. Let her not hope to remain faithful to the one while honoring the other; for in this religion it is an immutable principle that, the same person cannot invoke two sacred fires or two series of ancestors. "From the hour of marriage...
Сторінка 33 - As a rule (and as has been insisted on before), a stationary state is by far the most frequent condition of man, as far as history describes that condition; the progressive state is only a rare and an occasional exception.
Сторінка 343 - CommentarH, which are his only works that have come down to us. They relate the history of the first seven years of the Gallic War in seven books, and the history of the civil war, down to the commencement of the Alexandrine, in three books.
Сторінка 48 - The rest of the way, if we grant these two conditions, is plainer. The first thing is the erection of what we may call a custom-making power, that is, of an authority which can enforce a fixed rule of life, which, by means of that fixed rule, can in some degree create a calculable future, which can make it rational to postpone present violent but momentary pleasure for future continual pleasure, because it ensures, what else is not sure, that if the sacrifice of what is in hand be made, enjoyment...
Сторінка 43 - ... beats a race with that instinct but without that reason; in the second, a race with reason and high moral feeling beats a race with reason but without high moral feeling. And the two are palpably consistent. There is every reason, therefore, to suppose pre-historic man to be deficient in much of sexual morality, as we regard that morality. As to the detail of " primitive marriage " or " no marriage," for that is pretty much what it comes to, there is of course much room for discussion.
Сторінка 372 - Read!" continued the angel; the prophet declared that he was unable to read. " Read !" Gabriel again exclaimed, " read, in the name of thy Lord, who hath created all things; who hath created man of congealed blood.
Сторінка 682 - Borough is by virtue of his office a justice of the peace for the County of London...
Сторінка 222 - ... a priest of Hercules, and a man of immense wealth. He was murdered by Pygmalion, who coveted his treasures ; but Dido secretly sailed from Tyre with the treasures, accompanied by some noble Tyrians, who were dissatisfied with Pygmalion's rule. She first went to Cyprus, where she carried off 80 maidens to provide the emigrants with wives, and then crossed over to Africa. Here she purchased as much land as might be covered with the hide of a bull ; but she ordered the hide to be cut up into the...
Сторінка 51 - We may suppose, therefore, that the domestic fire was in the beginning only the symbol of the worship of the dead ; that under the stone of the hearth an ancestor reposed ; that the fire was lighted there to honor him, and that this fire seemed to preserve life in him, or represented his soul as always vigilant.

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