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... even from populous states, as well as from the inhabitants of the wilderness,
they are both wrong; since that knowledge which makes the happiness of a
refined European, would be a torment to the precarious tenant of an Asiatic wild.
Let me ...
... even from populous states, as well as from the inhabitants of the wilderness,
they are both wrong; since that knowledge which makes the happiness of a
refined European, would be a torment to the precarious tenant of an Asiatic wild.
Let me ...
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Some of those appearances are produced by experiment, others by minute
inquiry; some arise from a knowledge of for reign climates, and others from an
intimate study of our own. But there are few objects in comparison which present
...
Some of those appearances are produced by experiment, others by minute
inquiry; some arise from a knowledge of for reign climates, and others from an
intimate study of our own. But there are few objects in comparison which present
...
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And what a variety of knowledge and useful improvement would he not bring
back in exchange . There is probably no country so barbarous, that think, that a
person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received, would be
welcome ...
And what a variety of knowledge and useful improvement would he not bring
back in exchange . There is probably no country so barbarous, that think, that a
person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received, would be
welcome ...
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It may be observed with still greater justice, that if the useful knowledge of every
country, howsoever barbarous, was gleaned by a judicious observer, the
advantages would be inestimable. Are there not even in Europe many useful
inventions ...
It may be observed with still greater justice, that if the useful knowledge of every
country, howsoever barbarous, was gleaned by a judicious observer, the
advantages would be inestimable. Are there not even in Europe many useful
inventions ...
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A knowledge of universal history is therefore highly useful, nor is it less
entertaining. Tacitus complains, that the transactions of a few reigns could not
afford him a sufficient stock of materials to please or interest the reader; but here
that ...
A knowledge of universal history is therefore highly useful, nor is it less
entertaining. Tacitus complains, that the transactions of a few reigns could not
afford him a sufficient stock of materials to please or interest the reader; but here
that ...
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| Titel | The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Band 4 The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver Goldsmith |
| Autor/in | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Herausgeber | Samuel Rose |
| Verlag | Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 19. Nov. 2013 |
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