...barbarous state to -a state of extraordinary intellectual powers. All discoveries, both ancient and modern, and the domestic history or tradition of the most...nations, represent the human savage, naked both in body and mind, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. But this state, I...

...the do^ meftic hiftory, or tradition,, of the moft enlightened nations, repreient the human favage, naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almoft of language '°. From this abjeft condition, perhaps the primitive and unirerfal ftate of man,...

...speculations be found doubtful or fallacious, there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators,...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the k It would be an easy, though tedious,...

...speculations be found doubtful or fallacious, there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators,...enlightened nations, represent the human savage, naked ooth in mind and body, and destitute of /aws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language.' From this...

...of poets, phitosophers, aud historians. I shall therefore content myself with appealing to lhe Frorp this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement...

...there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and niodern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition,...and almost of language. From this abject condition, he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilise the earth, to traverse the ocean, and...

...savage, naked both in mind and body and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of languagei1. From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement...

...speculations be found doubtful or fallacious, there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators,...of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language. (10) From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state ot man, he has gradually...

...elegant historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, " and the domestic history or traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens." * , * " Gibbon's Decline and...

...elegant historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, " and the domestic history or traditions of the most enlightened nations, represent the human...he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilize the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens." * * " Gibbon's Decline and...