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" Yes ! gentlemen, says our author, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography ; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell... "
System of universal geography, founded on the works of Malte-Brun and Balbi - Page 314
by System - 1842
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A Discourse on Religious Education: Delivered at Hingham, May 10, 1818 ...

Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 pages
...productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in that country, and what part its inhabitants will act in history, — not accidentally but necessarily, not at any particular epoch, but in all ; in short, — what...
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Introduction to the History of Philosophy

Victor Cousin - 1832 - 478 pages
...productions, its flora, its zoology, &/c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in that country, and what part its inhabitants will act in history ; — not accidentally, but necessarily ; not at any particular epoch, but in all ; in short, — what...
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Two Articles from the Princeton Review: Concerning the Transcendental ...

Albert Baldwin Dod - 1840 - 114 pages
...productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in that country, and what part its inhabitants will act in history, — not accidentally but necessarily, not at any particular epoch, but in all ; in short, — what...
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System of Universal Geography: Founded on the Works of Malte-Brun and Balbi ...

James Laurie - 1842 - 1098 pages
...country be examined in reference to its physical geography, and it will then be possible to tell •'< priori what is the condition of man in that country,...race forming wealthy and populous communities, where hut a few years since, the thinly-scattered aboriginal tribes found only a scanty and precarious subsistence....
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Theological Essays

Princeton Review (Firm) - 1846 - 732 pages
...productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in that country, and what part its inhabitants will act in history — not accidentally, but necessarily, not at any particular epoch, but in all : — in short — what...
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A Manual of Geographical Science: Mathematical, Physical, Historical ..., Part 1

Charles Grenfell Nicolay - 1852 - 476 pages
...examined in reference to the latter, it will be possible to tell à priori what is che condition of men in that country, and what part its inhabitants will act in history. The exceptions to this rule are important, for they occur in those cases where a mixture of blood or...
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Present Status of the Philosophy of Society: A Treatise Designed to Show the ...

Leland A. Webster - 1866 - 372 pages
...its flora, its zoology, and so on, and I pledge myself to tell you a priori what will be the quality of man in that country, and what part its inhabitants will act in history."* Nowhere has the important truth in question been expressed with more emphasis, with less qualification,...
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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Volume 11

1839 - 618 pages
...productions, its flora, its zoology, &c. and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in that country, and what part its inhabitants will act in history, — not accidentally but necessarily, not at any particular epoch, but in all: in short — what idea...
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Reminiscences of Distinguished Men

William Banks Slaughter - 1878 - 318 pages
...winds, its natural productions, its flora, and its zoology, and I will tell you what will be the quality of man in that country, and what part its inhabitants will act in history." A citizen of our own country in a recent work on "social philosophy," ascribed to Race, a paramount...
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The Life of Bishop Matthew Simpson: Of the Methodist Episcopal Church

George Richard Crooks - 1890 - 576 pages
...its flora, its zoology, etc., and I pledge myself to tell you, ii priori, what will be the quality of man in that country, and what part its inhabitants will act in history.'' And if these principles be true, our scenery, surpassingly grand and magnificent, must produce exalted...
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