 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Philosophy - 1754 - 424 pages
...are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from generation 224 PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS. E%3. ration to corruption, and from corruption to generation;...forms, after periods which appear long to us, however fliort they may be compared with the immenfe Duration of the fyftems of created being. Thefe periods... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 508 pages
...surface, it runs under ground, and is ever ready to break out anew. Our physical and moral systems are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from...civility, and from civility to barbarity. Arts and ,.... 1 sciences sciences grow up, flourish, decay, die, and return again under the same, or other... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 552 pages
...surface, it runs under ground, and is ever ready to break out anew. Our physical and moral systems are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from...civility, and from civility to barbarity. Arts and sciences grow up, flourish, decay, die, and return again under the same, or other forms, after periods... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 548 pages
...surface, it runs under ground, and is ever ready to break out anew. Our physical and moral systems are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from...civility, and from civility to barbarity. Arts and sciences grow up, flourish, decay, die, and return again under the same, or other forms, after periods... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - Social Science - 1990 - 488 pages
...commentators, and classical writers like Livy and Polybius, he believed that "physical and moral systems are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from...barbarity to civility, and from civility to barbarity." Of course, 14. On the various doctrines of decline, see Peter Burke, "Tradition and Experience: The... | |
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Our physical and moral systems are carried round in one perpetual revolution, from generation to corruption, and from corruption to generation; from ignorance to knowledge, and from knowledge to ignorance; from barbarity to civility, and from civility... 