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" Whatever it be that forms the manners of one generation, the next must imbibe a deeper tincture of the same dye; men being more susceptible of all impressions during infancy, and retaining these impressions as long as they remain in the world. "
Thoughts on the Cause of Evil, Physical and Moral: In a Series of Letters - Page 55
by Henry William Lovett - 1810 - 174 pages
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

David Hume - 1758 - 568 pages
...impreffions during infancy, and retaining thefe impreffions as long as they remain in the world. I aflert, then, that all national characters, where they depend not on fixed moral caufes, proceed from fuch accidents as thefe, and that phyfical caufes have no difcernible operation...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. ...

David Hume - 1768 - 606 pages
...impreflions during infancy, and retaining thefe impreffions as long as they remain in the world. I affert, then, that all national characters, .where they depend not on fixed moral caufes, proceed from fuch accidents as thefe, and that phyfical caufes have no difcernable operation...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1

David Hume - 1804 - 592 pages
...passion in every bosom. Whatever it be that forms the manners of one generation, the next must imbibe a deeper tincture of the same dye ; men being more...causes have no discernible operation on the human mind. It is a maxim in all philosophy, that causes xvhich do not appear, are to be considered as not existing....
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Essays, moral, political, and literary

David Hume - 1809 - 868 pages
...passion in every bosom. Whatever it be that forms the manners of one generation, the next must imbibe a. deeper tincture of the same dye ; men being more...these impressions as long as they remain in the world. 1 assert, then, that all national characters, where they depend not on fixed moral causes, proceed...
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Essays, moral, political, and literary

David Hume - 1842 - 570 pages
...passion in every bosom. Whatever Nit be that forms the manners of one generation, the next must imbibe a deeper tincture of the same dye ; men being more...they remain in the world. I assert, then, that all nntional characters, where they depend not on fixed moral causes, proceed from such accidents as these,...
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Philosophical Works, Volume 3

David Hume - 1854 - 586 pages
...passion in every bosom. Whatever it be that forms the manners of one generation, the next must imbibe a deeper tincture of the same dye ; men being more...causes have no discernible operation on the human mind. It is a maxim in all philosophy, that causes which do not appear are to be considered as not existing....
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...passion in every bosom. Whatever it be that forms the manners of one generation, the next must imbibe a deeper tincture of the same dye ; men being more...causes have no discernible operation on the human mind. It is a maxim in all philosophy, that causes which do not appear are to be considered as not existing....
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Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, Volume 1

David Hume - 1889 - 530 pages
...being more susceptible of all impressions daring infancy, and retaining these impressions as long an they remain in the world. I assert, then, that all...causes have no discernible operation on the human mind. 1 It is a maxim in all philosophy, that causes which do not appear, are to be considered as not existing....
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The Environmental Basis of Society: A Study in the History of Sociological ...

Franklin Thomas - 1925 - 368 pages
...same passion in every bosom. Whatever it be that forms the manners of one generation, the next imbibe a deeper tincture of the same dye ; men being more...causes have no discernible operation on the human mind. It is a maxim in all philosophy, that causes which do not appear, are to be considered as not existing....
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Hume's Philosophical Politics

Duncan Forbes - 1985 - 358 pages
...passion in every bosom. Whatever it be that forms the manners of one generation, the next must imbibe a deeper tincture of the same dye: men being more...these impressions as long as they remain in the world. . .all national characters where they depend not on fixed moral causes, proceed from such accidents...
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