 | 1837 - 656 pages
...rivers of whom we ask how much water have they carried to the ocean ? Civilization is, as it were, the grand emporium of a people, in which all its wealth,...life, all the powers of its existence, are stored up. It is so true that we judge of minor facts accordingly as they affect this greater one, that even some... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1838 - 580 pages
...the rivers of whom we ask how much water they have carried to the ocean. Civilization is, as it were, the grand emporium of a people, in which all its wealth...— all the powers of its existence are stored up. It is so true that we judge of minor facts accordingly as they affect this greater one, that even some... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1838 - 352 pages
...the rivers of whom we ask how much water they have carried to the ocean. Civilization is, as it were, the grand emporium of a people, in which all its wealth...— all the powers of its existence are stored up. It is so true that we judge of minor facts accordingly as they affect this greater one, that even some... | |
 | François Guizot - 1850 - 330 pages
...the rivers of whom we ask how much water they have carried to the ocean. Civilization is, as it wore, the grand emporium of a people, in which all its wealth — all the elements of its life— '1 the powers of its existence are stored up- It is so true that we judge of minor facts accordingly... | |
 | François Guizot, Guizot (M., François) - 1850 - 330 pages
...carried to the ocean. Civilization is, as it wore, the grand emporium of a people, in which all ite -wealth — all the elements of its life — all the powers of its existence are stored up. It is so true that we judge of minor facts accordingly as they affect this greater one, that even some... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1854 - 338 pages
...the rivers of whom we ask how much water they have carried to the ocean. Civilization is, as it wore, the grand emporium of a people, in which all its wealth...— all the powers of its existence are stored up. It is so true that we judge of minor facts accordingly as they affect this greater one, that even some... | |
 | François Guizot - 1856 - 356 pages
...of whom we ask how much water they have carried to the ocean. Civilization is, as it were, the grapd emporium of a people, in which all its wealth —...— all the powers of its existence are stored up. It is so true that we judge of minor facts accordingly as they affect this greater one, that even some... | |
 | Simeon Nash - 1859 - 474 pages
...interesting than any other fact in history, because it comprehends every other. Civilization is, as it were, the grand emporium of a people, in which all its wealth,...life, all the powers of its existence are stored up. It is as they contribute to the progress of social life, of civilization that all other facts find... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1865 - 338 pages
...rivers of whom we ask how. much water they have carried to the ocean. Civilization is, as it were, the grand emporium of a people, in which all its wealth...— all the powers of its existence are stored up. It is so trus that we judge of minor facts accordingly as they affect this greater one, that even some... | |
 | Edward Garbett - 1867 - 428 pages
...History of Philosophy, art. Augusts Comte.) LECTUEE VI NOTE 1, p. 200. " CIVILISATION is, as it were, the grand emporium of a people in which all its wealth,...life, all the powers of its existence, are stored up." (Guizot on Civilisation, Lect. I. p. 6.) " Wherever the exterior condition of man becomes enlarged,... | |
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These are, as it were, the rivers of whom we ask how much water they have carried to the ocean. Civilization is, as it were, the grand emporium of a people, in which all its wealth — all the elements of its life — all the powers of its existence are... 
