 | Adam Ferguson - Civilization - 1809 - 484 pages
...for the practice of commercial arts, be continued, or increased, into a disuse of national efforts ; if the: individual, not called to unite with his country,...pursue his private advantage ; we may find him become efleminate, mercenary, and sensual ; not because pleasures and profits are become more alluring, but... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - Social Science - 1980 - 368 pages
...for the practice of commercial arts, be continued, or increased, into a disuse of national efforts; if the individual, not called to unite with his country,...find him become effeminate, mercenary, and sensual; not because pleasures and profits are become more alluring, but because he has fewer calls to attend... | |
 | Laurence Dickey, Laurence Winant Dickey - History - 1989 - 480 pages
...vanity."127 Reflecting on how to remedy this situation Ferguson made a remarkable point. He wrote: . . .if the individual, not called to unite with his country,...find him become effeminate, mercenary, and sensual; not because pleasures and profits are become more alluring, but because he has fewer calls to attend... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - Civilització - 1789 - 448 pages
...for the practice of commercial arts, be continued, or increafed, into a difufe of national efforts ; if the individual, not called to unite with his country, be left to purfue his private advantage ; we may find him become effeminate, mercenary, and fenfual ; not becaufe... | |
 | Evan Gottlieb - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 282 pages
...for the practice of commercial arts, be continued, or increased, into a disuse of national efforts; if the individual, not called to unite with his country,...find him become effeminate, mercenary, and sensual; not because pleasures and profits are become more alluring, but because he has fewer calls to attend... | |
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If that respite from public dangers and troubles which gives a leisure for the practice of commercial arts, be continued, or increased, into a disuse of national efforts; if the individual, not called to unite with his country, be left to pursue his private... 