 | Lant Carpenter - Education - 1820 - 514 pages
...hate-* ful vanity, by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of any other, and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the standard of right and wrong, of true and false." This presents an effectual bar to improvement in the... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...themselves to those of every other ; and to make then- own customs, and manners, and opinions, the right and wrong, of true and false. The Chinese Mandarins...their empire made in the general map of the world. — Bolingbroke. 963. Masters — In the statutes of St. Paul's Cathedral, the vergers are ordered... | |
 | David McClure, Native of Philadelphia - Education - 1838 - 454 pages
...and hateful vanity, by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of any other, and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the standard of right and wrong, of true and false. This presents an effectual barrier to improvement in... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 522 pages
...that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other; and to make their own customs,...their empire made in the general map of the world. The Samojedes wondered much at the Czar of Muscovy for not living among them: and the Hottentot, who... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other, and to make their own customs,...their empire made in the general map of the world. * * * 2. Now, nothing can contribute more to prevent us from being tainted with this vanity than to... | |
 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 pages
...that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other; and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the right and wrong of true and false. The Chinese mandarins were strangely surprised, and almost incredulous,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other ; and to make their own customs,...the standards of right and wrong, of true and false. Now, nothing can contribute more to prevent us from being tainted with this vanity, than to accustom... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1866 - 204 pages
...that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are ap; to prefer themselves to those of every other; and to make their- own customs,...the standards of right and wrong, of true and false. EXERCISE CXLIII. NECESSITY OF STUDY. BOLINGBKOK. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on his... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.), Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Europe - 1870 - 318 pages
...that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other, and to make their own customs...their empire made in the general map of the world. The Samojedes wondered much at the czar of Muscovy for not living among them ; and the Hottentot, who... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other ; and to make their own customs,...surprised, and almost incredulous, when the Jesuits shewed them how small a figure their empire made in the genera) map of the world. . . . Now, nothing... | |
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There is scarce any folly or vice more epidemical among the sons of men than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other ; and to make their own customs, and manners, and... 
