 There is scarce any folly or vice more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other; and to make their own customs, and manners, and...  Letters on the Study and Use of History - Page 29by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1752 - 481 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1768 - 376 lehte
...Let me explain what I mean by an example. There is fcarce any folly or vice more epidemical affiong the fons of men, than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity, by which the people of each couotfy are apt to prefer themfelves to thofe of every oth«r; B 3 and to make their own cuftoms, and... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1793 - 570 lehte
...are not quite unprepared» we learn our parts fooner, and we learn them better. LET me explain what I mean by an example. There is fcarce" any folly or...of right and wrong, of true and falfe. The Chinefe mandarins were ftrangely Turprifed, and almoft incredulous, when the Jefuits: mewed them how fmall... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 480 lehte
...explain what I mean by an example. There is scarce any folly or vice more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity, by...people of each country are apt to prefer themfelves to those of every other j and to make their own customs, and manners, and Opinions, the standards of right... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 486 lehte
...explain what I mean by an example. There is scarce any folly or vice more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity, by...people of each country are apt to prefer themfelves to those of every other ; and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the standards of right... | |
 | Lant Carpenter - 1820 - 514 lehte
...says Lord Bolingbroke, " more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hate-* ful vanity, by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of any other, and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the standard... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 lehte
...National Partiality and Prejudice. There is scarce any folly or vice moro epidemical among the sous lived beside the Tj-ne, A wealthy lord was he ; And all his wealth was marked as mine themselves to those of every other; and to muke their own customs, ami manners, and opinions, the standards... | |
 | 1837 - 352 lehte
...Exclusive love of our own Country. — There is scarcely any folly or vice more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by...which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other ; and to make then- own customs, and manners, and opinions, the... | |
 | David McClure, Native of Philadelphia - 1838 - 454 lehte
...vice, says lord Bolingbroke, more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hateful vanity, by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of any other, and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the standard... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 414 lehte
...ad nauseam; for " there is, perhaps, no folly more common, or vice more epidemical, among the sons of men than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity, by...which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other," and it may be added, to which the English travelling public, are... | |
 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 lehte
...EXCLUSIVE LOVE OF OUR OWN COUNTKY. There is scarcely any folly or vice more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by...which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other; and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the right... | |
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