 | Joseph Priestley - Church and state - 1771 - 330 pages
...believe, more difpofed) to communicate happinefs to others. Thus, whatever was the beginning ginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradifaical, beyond what our imaginations can now conceive. Extravagant as fome may fuppofe thefe views to be, I think I could fhow them to be fairly fuggefted... | |
 | Élie Halévy - France - 1900 - 454 pages
...in himself, and more able (and, I believe, more disposed) to communicate happiness to others. Tims, whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisiacal, beyond what our imaginations can now conceive. Extravagant as some may suppose these... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - History - 1920 - 404 pages
...comfortable ; they will probably prolong their existence in it and will grow daily more happy. . . . Thus, whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and para- "^ ~' disiacal beyond what our imaginations can now conceive. Extravagant as some people may... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - History - 1920 - 404 pages
...comfortable ; they will probably prolong their existence in it and will grow daily more happy. . . . Thus, whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisiacal beyond what our imaginations can now conceive. Extravagant as some people may suppose... | |
 | Harold Joseph Laski - Political science - 1920 - 336 pages
...of the book we meet the ,dogma of the perfectibility of man. -- " AVhatever^Priestley rhapsodizes, "was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisaical, beyond what our imaginations can now conceive." "The imtrument of this progress . . .... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 872 pages
...accordingly was more propagandist than scientific. Adam Smith could never have written, like Priestley, that ' whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisaical, beyond what our imaginations can now conceive' (Essay, p. 8). With Smith, the idea of... | |
 | William Stafford - History - 1987 - 320 pages
...in himself, and more able (and, I believe, more disposed) to communicate happiness to others. Thus whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisiacal, beyond what our imaginations can now conceive.155 But faith in progress is counterpointed... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - Social Science - 1990 - 488 pages
...fairest presumption that they will be better than we are." "Thus," he concluded in a famous phrase, "whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisiacal, beyond what our imaginations can now conceive."25 Such statements should not suggest... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - History - 1993 - 196 pages
...in himself, and more able (and, I believe, more disposed) to communicate happiness to others. Thus, whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisaical, beyond what our imaginations can now conceive. Extravagant as some may suppose these... | |
 | Robert A. Nisbet - 392 pages
...in himself and more able (and, I believe, more disposed) to communicate happiness to others. Thus, whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisiacal, beyond what our imaginations can now conceive. Only William Godwin in England, whom we... | |
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... will be more at our command; men will make their situation in this world abundantly more easy and comfortable; they will probably prolong their existence in it, and will grow daily more happy, each in himself, and more able (and, I believe, more disposed)... 
