 | John Home - 1822 - 420 pagine
...debt must be the ruin of Britain ; and laments that the two most civilized nations, the English and French, should be on the decline ; and the barbarians,...Germany and Russia, should be rising in power and renown. The French king, he says, has ruined the state by recalling the parliaments. Mr Hume thinks... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - 1822 - 614 pagine
...debt must be the ruin of Britain ; and laments that the two most civilized nations, the English and French, should be on the decline ; and the barbarians,...Germany and Russia, should be rising in power and renown. The French king, he says, has ruined the state by recalling the parliaments. Mr Hume thinks... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 566 pagine
...debt must be the ruin of Britain ; and laments that the two most civilized nations, the English and French, should be on the decline ; and the barbarians,...Germany and Russia, should be rising in power and renown. The French king, he says, has ruined the state by recalling the parliaments. Mr. Hume thinks... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 pagine
...debt must be the ruin of Britain ; and laments that the two most civilised nations, the English and French, should be on the decline ; and the barbarians,...Germany and Russia, should be rising in power and renown.' JH Burton's Hume, ii. 497. ' Hannah More was with Dr. Kennicott at his death. 'Thus closed... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 pagine
...survey of the state of the world, he lamented " that the two most civilised nations, the English and French, should be on the decline ; and the barbarians, the Goths and Vandals of Germany and Russi2, should be rising in power and renown." Half seriously, David remarked that he had set out to... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 468 pagine
...debt must be the ruin of Britain; and laments that the two most civilized nations, the English and French, should be on the decline; and the barbarians,...Germany and Russia, should be rising in power and renown. The French king, he says, has ruined the state by recalling the parliaments. Mr Hume thinks... | |
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Hume thinks himself more easy and light, than he has been any time for three months. In the course of our conversation we touched upon the national affairs. He still maintains, that the national debt must be the ruin of Britain ; and laments that the... 