 It is universally acknowledged that there is a great uniformity among the actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions: The same...  The History of Moral Science - Page 262by Robert Blakey - 1833Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the...enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Romans ? Study well... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operadons. The same motives always produce the same actions ;...enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Romans ? Study well... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 626 pages
...actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the...vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit ; these VOL. IV. G passions, mixed in . various degrees, and distributed through society, have been, from the... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1846 - 520 pages
...actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the...enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Romans ? study well... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1846 - 682 pages
...actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the snme in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions; the same events follow from the sun* causes. Ambition, avarice, self-love, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit ; these passions,... | |
 | James H. MACCULLOH - 1852 - 542 pages
...actions of men in all nations and ages, and lhat human nature remains still the same in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the...enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Mankind arc so much the same in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the...beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all actions and enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments,... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 596 pages
...nations and ages, and iharKuman^atufe" remams still the same in its principles and operations. TJ^jsam^ the same actions ; the same events follow from the...beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all actions and enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments,... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pages
...conjunction observable in human actions ? A student of history could give but one answer to this question : " Ambition, avarice, self-love, vanity, friendship,...enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Romans ? Study well... | |
 | James Bowling Mozley - 1883 - 436 pages
...actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions ; the same events follow the same causes. Ambition, avarice, self-love, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit ; these... | |
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