This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773 Excerpt: ...and authority. This, as has been formerly observed, is the foundation of that respect and reverence which among early nations is commonly paid to old men. From this cause also it happens, that the leader of a barbarous tribe is often a person advanced in years, who, retaining still his bodily strength, has had time to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773 Excerpt: ...and authority. This, as has been formerly observed, is the foundation of that respect and reverence which among early nations is commonly paid to old men. From this cause also it happens, that the leader of a barbarous tribe is often a person advanced in years, who, retaining still his bodily strength, has had time to acquire experience in the art of war, and to obtain a distinguished reputation by the achievements which he hath performed. The effect of these circumstances, to raise and support the authority of a leader or chief, "au soleil: une femelle qui etoit en rut, s'ecarta de la "troupe, et fe fit suivre par un male; le gros macou, qui "s'en appercut le moment apres, y courut; il ne put rat"trapper le male qui fe sauva a toutes jambes; mais ilra"mena la femelle a qui il donna en presence des autres, "plus de cinquante soufflats, comme pour la chatier de "son incontinence." Tom. i. p. 194. Amsterdam, 1736. is is sufficiently obvious and i fully illustrated by the history of all nations, not only the' most rude and barbarous, but those also whieh are advanced in civilisation and refinemerih "And the people and princes of Gilead "said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of "Amman? He shall be head over all the in habitants of Gilead. "Now Jephthah the Giieadite was a-mighty "man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot, and Gilead begat jephthah. "And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and-his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust "out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou "shalt not inherit in our father's house "for thou art the son of a strange" woman. a Then Jephthah fled from bis brethren, "and dwelt in the land of To...
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8vo, 17x 12cm, xiv, [ii], 240p., foxed, front and rear free flies wanting, in contemporaryfull dark brown calf, real raised bands, label wanting, spine cracked andglued, board edges worn, foxed, good copy. (ids) John Millar, 1735-1801. Millar was a Scottish lawyer and philosopher who counted among hisfriends and acquaintances, Hume, Lord Kames, Adam Smith and Thomas Reid. Both the American and French revolutions had his support, and he waswhiggish when it was rather more circumspect to be toryish. He washeavily influenced by Smith's Theory of Economic Determinism, while thepresent title also show Montesquieu's affect on his thinking. Thisedition comes between the third published in London in 1779 and thefourth published in Edinburgh in 1806. It was probably unauthorized andwas no doubt issued in response to the events in France. Millar's mostimportant work.
