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In Spain, the ruling classes were supreme; the people counted for nothing; and hence the grandeur of the country, which was raised up by the able princes of the sixteenth century, was as quickly pulled down by the weak princes of the seventeenth 467-472
In the preceding chapters, I have endeavoured to establish four leading propositions, which, according to my view, are to be deemed the basis of the history of civilization. The...
20. CHAPTER VII.In the last chapter but one, I have attempted to ascertain what those circumstances were which, almost immediately after the death of Louis XIV., prepared the way for the French...
9. CHAPTER I.The consideration of these great changes in the English mind, has led me into a digression, which, so far from being foreign to the design of this Introduction, is absolutely ne...
19. part ii. p. 63; and at p. 88, 'suivant l'usage de son temps,[824] So it seemed to me, when I turned over its leaves a few years ago. However, Patin says, 'sa philosophie françoise n'est pas mauvaise.' _Lettres de Patin_, vol. iii. p. 357...
17. CHAPTER V.At length Louis XIV. died. When it was positively known that the old king had ceased to breathe, the people went almost mad with joy.[518] The tyranny which had weighed them dow...
16. CHAPTER IV.The reader will now be able to understand how it was that the protective system, and the notions of subordination connected with it, gained in France a strength unknown in Engla...
13. part i. pp. 243 seq., with _Meyer_, _Instit. Judic._ vol. ii. pp.The English aristocracy being thus forced, by their own weakness, to rely on the people,[299] it naturally followed, that the people imbibed that tone of independence, and that...
15. Book xi. under the year 1648. Compare some good remarks by Mr.For, without burdening this Introduction with what may be read in our common histories, it will be sufficient to remind the reader of a few of the conspicuous events of that tim...
12. CHAPTER II.When, towards the end of the fifth century, the Roman empire was broken up, there followed, as is well known, a long period of ignorance and of crime, in which even the ablest m...
18. CHAPTER VI.It may be easily supposed, that those vast movements in the intellect of France, which I have just traced, could not fail to produce a great change in the method of writing hist...
11. part i. p. 78; _Bulstrode's Memoirs_, p. 4; _Howell's Letters_,[261] Dugald Stewart (_Philos. of the Mind_, vol. i. p. 357) says, 'Nothing can be more just than the observation of Fontenelle, that "the number of those who believe in a syste...
10. part ii. pp. 327, 332, 352, 363; _Stäudlin_, _Geschichte dertheologischen Wissenschaften_, vol. i. p. 263; _Tennemann_, _Gesch. der Philos._ vol. x. pp. 285 seq.; _Huetius de Rebus ad eum pertinentibus_, pp. 35, 295, 296, 385-389; _Moshe...
14. CHAPTER III.The object of the last chapter was to enquire into the origin of the protective spirit. From the evidence there collected, it appears that this spirit was first organized into a...
8. CHAPTER VIII.In Spain, the ruling classes were supreme; the people counted for nothing; and hence the grandeur of the country, which was raised up by the able princes of the sixteenth centur...
1. CHAPTER I.7. CHAPTER VII.6. CHAPTER VI.2. CHAPTER II.4. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER V.3. Chapter III.