 | 1847 - 468 trang
...— the foundation of a fabric which will attain to its grandeur in some distant age. Here, indeed, the arts of manufacture and the practice of commerce are of the greatest antiquity, and have survived, with but little loss, the ruins of time, and the revolutions... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 trang
...advance; it is in India, and in the regions of this hemisphere, which are visited by the vertical sun, that the arts of manufacture, and the practice of commerce, are of the greatest antiquity, and have survived, with the smallest diminution, the ruins of time, and the revolutions... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 trang
...advance; it is in India, and in the regions of this hemisphere, which are visited by the vertical sun, that the arts of manufacture, and the practice of commerce, are of the greatest antiquity, and have survived, with the smallest diminution, the ruins of time, and the revolutions... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 526 trang
...advance ; it is in India, and in the regions of this hemisphere which are visited by the vertical sun, that the arts of manufacture and the practice of commerce are of the greatest antiquity, and have survived, with the smallest diminution, ruins of time and the revolutions... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 trang
...advance ; it is in India, and in the regions of this hemisphere which are visited by the vertical sun, that the arts of manufacture and the practice of commerce are of the greatest antiquity, and have survived, with the smallest diminution, the ruins of time and the revolutions... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 448 trang
...inhabitants of the new world, to have made the greateft advance: it is in India, and in the regions of this hemifphere, which are vifited by the vertical...rigours of defpotical government: and fuch is the effect of a gentle and pacific difpofition in the natives of the Eaft, that no conqueft, no irruption... | |
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... required in the conduct of civil affairs. It was indeed in the torrid zone that mere arts of mechanism and manufacture were found, among the inhabitants of the new world, to have made the greatest advance; it is in India, and in the regions of this... 