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" I am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress of madness and folly and wickedness in England. The consummation of these qualities are the true ingredients for making a fine narrative in history... "
The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart - Page 225
by Dugald Stewart - 1858
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Varieties of Scientific Experience: Emotive Aims in Scientific Hypotheses

Lewis S. Feuer - 524 pages
...affected Hume. Toward the German military state, he felt much as did the Hume who wrote how he was 'delighted to see the daily and hourly progress of madness and folly and wickedness of England'. Awaiting the crushing of Berlin militarism, Einstein might have spoken as the Hume who...
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Still in Bed with an Elephant

Paul Henderson Scott - 1998 - 132 pages
...Decayd nor depravd here, as with the Barbarians who inhabit the Banks of the Thames" (April, 1764).22 "I am delighted to see the daily and hourly Progress of Madness and Folly and Wickedness in England" (Oct. 1769). 23 "It has been my misfortune to write in the Language of the most stupid and factious...
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The Boasted Advantages

Paul Henderson Scott - 1999 - 98 pages
...his feelings about England in such remarks as: "the Barbarians who inhabit the Banks of the Thames"; "the daily and hourly Progress of Madness and Folly and Wickedness in England"; and "it has been my misfortune to write in the language of the most stupid and factious Barbarians...
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The Early History of Charles James Fox

George Otto Trevelyan - 1899 - 488 pages
...me. All my friends encourage me in this ambition, as thinking it will redound very much to my honor. "I am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress...the true ingredients for making a fine narrative in 1" ' if followed bv some sisrnal and ruinous ™ni-- ' censorship; a Parliament where the minority...
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