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    civilized


    1. Males often wore a sling under it, but even so, there was no false bragging going on and hadn't been since way before Europe was civilized


    2. "Yes;" Eelon's eyes brightened, "we've heard of Dos, we understand it's quite civilized over there


    3. This relatively civilized introduction to importuning went on for a few minutes more until interrupted by the approach of two railway policemen


    4. relatively civilized introduction to importuning went on for a few


    5. She gave the young man a moment to relinquish the sleeve still tight in his fingers then stated clearly and loud enough for his mates and anyone one else out at that time to hear, “You will keep a civil tongue in your foul little mouth, or there's more where that came from! Don't even begin to tell any one else about 'manners!' I don't know from whose foolish talk you picked up that misapplied epithet, but you will do well to remember this: you and your little friends are not even civilized humans yet and until you learn to treat others as you would be treated, I pity you the knocks and bruises in store for you, and not just at the hands of a 'woman' next time;” she glared at them one at a time, “Now get on back to your homes and don't even think of repeating such a foolish stunt!” she added


    6. To imagine that it 'just happened,' is not only implausible but contradicts the evidence of the rapid diaspora of man across the continents in cohesive groups accomplishing cooperative feats of civilized development


    7. He obviously did not think it worth bringing anyone else in to hear more evidence that the society was peaceful and civilized


    8. He obviously didn’t know anything about civilized life, even such as it was out here in Yoonbarla


    9. That was also probably consistent with coming from a civilized portion of this basin like Bostok


    10. As in a civilized country there are but few commodities of which the exchangeable value arises from labour only, rent and profit contributing largely to that of the far greater part of them, so the annual produce of its labour will always be sufficient to purchase or command a much greater quantity of labour than what was employed in raising, preparing, and bringing that produce to market

    11. Ylippa was the more civilized of the two, but he wasn't around


    12. Corn, besides, or whatever else is the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, constitutes, in every civilized country, the principal part of the subsistence of the labourer


    13. Even the Peruvians, the more civilized nation of the two, though they made use of gold and silver as ornaments, had no coined money of any kind


    14. The jealousy of the barbarians for the civilized


    15. It clearly demonstrates, that the stock and population of the country did not bear the same proportion to the extent of its territory, which they commonly do in civilized countries ; and that society was at that time, and in that country, but in its infancy


    16. But from the high or low money price of some sorts of goods in proportion to that of others, we can infer, with a degree of probability that approaches almost to certainty, that it was rich or poor, that the greater part of its lands were improved or unimproved, and that it was either in a more or less barbarous state, or in a more or less civilized one


    17. These are the three great, original, and constituent, orders of every civilized society, from whose revenue that of every other order is ultimately derived


    18. already? And yet, it never has, not here or anywhere in the civilized world


    19. country, it is not more civilized, but only more


    20. They have there a civilized toilet,

    21. The great commerce of every civilized society is that carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country


    22. Better yet, the place was civilized


    23. Italy lay in the centre of what was at that time the improved and civilized part of the world


    24. Names, introductions…they were the simple formalities that reminded one that he or she still inhabited a civilized world even in the darkest times of war and calamity


    25. But rich and civilized nations can always exchange to a much greater value with one another, than with savages and barbarians


    26. As, in every civilized country, it is the commodity of which the annual consumption is the greatest ; so a greater quantity of industry is annually employed in pruducing corn than in producing any other commodity


    27. The colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society


    28. The second is the invention of money, which binds together all the relations between civilized societies


    29. A nation of hunters can never be formidable to the civilized nations in their neighbourhood; a nation of shepherds may


    30. The number of those who can go to war, in proportion to the whole number of the people, is necessarily much smaller in a civilized than in a rude state of society

    31. In a civilized society, as the soldiers are maintained altogether by the labour of those who are not soldiers, the number of the former can never exceed what the latter can maintain, over and above maintaining, in a manner suitable to their respective stations, both themselves and the other officers of government and law, whom they are obliged to maintain


    32. Among the civilized nations of modern Europe, it is commonly computed, that not more than the one hundredth part of the inhabitants of any country can be employed as soldiers, without ruin to the country which pays the expense of their service


    33. The militias of all the civilized nations of the ancient world, of Greece, of Syria, and of Egypt, made but a feeble resistance to the standing armies of Rome


    34. It was brought about by the irresistible superiority which the militia of a barbarous has over that of a civilized nation; which the militia of a nation of shepherds has over that of a nation of husbandmen, artificers, and manufacturers


    35. When the expedient of a standing army, besides, had once been adopted by one civilized nation, it became necessary that all its neighbours should follow the example


    36. When a civilized nation depends for its defence upon a militia, it is at all times exposed to be conquered by any barbarous nation which happens to be in its neighbourhood


    37. The frequent conquests of all the civilized countries in Asia by the Tartars, sufficiently demonstrates the natural superiority which the militia of a barbarous has over that of a civilized nation


    38. Such an army, as it can best be maintained by an opulent and civilized nation, so it can alone defend such a nation against the invasion of a poor and barbarous neighbour


    39. As it is only by means of a well regulated standing army, that a civilized country can be defended, so it is only by means of it that a barbarous country can be suddenly and tolerably civilized


    40. No society, whether barbarous or civilized, has ever found it convenient to settle the rules of precedency of rank and subordination, according to those invisible qualities; but according to something that is more plain and palpable

    41. In the most opulent and civilized nations, age regulates rank among those who are in every other respect equal ; and among whom, therefore, there is nothing else to regulate it


    42. In an opulent and civilized society, a man may possess a much greater fortune, and yet not be able to command a dozen of people


    43. The authority of fortune, however, is very great, even in an opulent and civilized society


    44. The salaries of all the different judges, high and low, together with the whole expense of the administration and execution of justice, even where it is not managed with very good economy, makes, in any civilized country, but a very inconsiderable part of the whole expense of government


    45. But in every improved and civilized society, this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it


    46. Invention is kept alive, and the mind is not suffered to fall into that drowsy stupidity, which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding of almost all the inferior ranks of people


    47. In such a society, indeed, no man can well acquire that improved and refined understanding which a few men sometimes possess in a more civilized state


    48. In a civilized state, on the contrary, though there is little variety in the occupations of the greater part of individuals, there is an almost infinite variety in those of the whole society These varied occupations present an almost infinite variety of objects to the


    49. The same thing may be said of the gross ignorance and stupidity which, in a civilized society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of people


    50. In every civilized society, in every society where the














































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    Synonyms for "civilized"

    civilised civilized cultivated cultured genteel polite civil courteous well-behaved respectful refined mannerly complaisant

    "civilized" definitions

    having a high state of culture and development both social and technological


    marked by refinement in taste and manners