 We look back on the savage condition of our ancestors with the triumph of superiority; we are pleased to mark the steps by which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance...  The Gentleman's Magazine - 42 페이지1828전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | General history - 1815 - 802 페이지
...tracing the transition from barbarism to civility. That these specula* tions should become the favourite topics of such a period, is extremely natural. We...condition of our ancestors with the triumph of superiority ; and are pleased to mark the steps by which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance ; and our... | |
 | James Cook - 1821 - 488 페이지
...of our ancestors * Preface to his History of English Poetry. " with the triumph of superiority; and are pleased " to mark the steps by which we have been...accompanied with a conscious pride, *' arising, in a great measure, from a tacit comparison " of the infinite disproportion between the feeble " efforts... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 532 페이지
...tracing the transition from barbarism to civility. That these speculations should become the favourite topics of such a period, is extremely natural. We...condition of our ancestors with the triumph of superiority ; and are pleased to mark the steps by which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance ; and our... | |
 | 1859 - 578 페이지
...much for our antiquities, could explain his pleasure in them on such grounds as the following: — ' We look back on the savage condition of our ancestors...which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance.' This tone was wonderfully prevalent, whether the Crusades, or Chivalry, or any other ancient embodiment... | |
 | 1859 - 578 페이지
...antiquities, could explain his pleasure in them on such grounds as the following: — ' We look lack on the savage condition of our ancestors with the...which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance.' This tone was wonderfully prevalent, whether the Crusades, or Chivalry, or any other ancient embodiment... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 페이지
...as the following : — ' We look back on the savage condition of our ancestors witlt the triumph o) superiority ; we are pleased to mark the steps by...which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance.' This tone was wonderfully prevalent, whether the Crusades, or Chivalry, or any other ancient embodiment... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 페이지
...as the following : — ' We look back on tlie savage condition of our ancestors with tlie triumph qf superiority ; we are pleased to mark the steps by...which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance.' This tone was wonderfully prevalent, whether the Crusades, or Chivalry, or any other ancient embodiment... | |
 | 1859 - 650 페이지
...loot back on the tavage amdition of our anc«»tor» with the triumph of superiority; we are pieced to mark the steps by which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance.' This tone was wonderfully prevalent, whether the Crusades, or Chivalry, or any other ancient embodiment... | |
 | John Bennett Black - 1926 - 220 페이지
...shared in the general attitude of the Enlightenment towards the past. " We look back," he writes,1 " on the savage condition of our ancestors with the...from rudeness to elegance, and our reflections on the subject are accompanied with the conscious pride arising, in a great measure, from a tacit comparison... | |
 | R. R. Agrawal - 1990 - 316 페이지
...showing thereby the importance of the antiquarian lore. In the Preface he explained his view thus: We look back on the savage condition of our ancestors...which we have been raised from rudeness to elegance: 27 Manwaring, p. 107. and our reflections on this subject are accompanied with a conscious pride, arising... | |
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