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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1785 edition. Excerpt: ... language in comparison a weak and useless method. The gesture of anger, of terror, of the suppliant, penetrate or freeze the soul. An animal is seized with dread at a threatning gesture; and what the speech could never do, an action executes in the twinkling of an eye: it is the universal language that equally strikes all nations of the peopled earth. Action is clear, never equivocal; it never lies: in may be cunning, iubtile, ingenious. The ancients, who were acquainted with its power, have excited the most extraordinary emotions, by means of their pantomimes. If the pantomime actors are suffered to go on, they will end in Paris, as they did among the Romans, by driving from the theatre all speaking actors. ASTRONOMY. W E must argue a great deal to conquer the testimony of the fenses, which seem to assure us the earth is immovable, and that the fun revolves around it. The-system that makes us insignificant to ourselves we have adopted, notwithstanding our pride; the reason is, we could not help it. It was so charming to look upon ourselves as inhabitants of the first globe, as the sole object of the creation, that I am surprised we have consented to place ourselves in a cor-j ' ner ner of the universe with so many other planets. The immutable fun, fixed in the center of the firmament, attracting all the planets that surround it, is itself only a luminous point in the vast system of the universe. Let imagination dart itself to the most elevated star, and from thence contemplate; it will perceive still another vaulted roof, more astonishing and more profound. A new firmament will extend ad infinitum; nothing will remain to the contemplator but the astonishment and dread which follow, consequent to such an admiration. On The INEQUALITY Of HUMAN...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154069174
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154069176
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 186 gr


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