Sketches of the History of Man ...: In Four Volumes ...W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, and W. Creech, 1778 |
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... - red to their native dignity . Attention to dress is the first symptom of the progress . Male favages , even of the groffelt kind , are are fond of drefs . Charlevoix mentions a young American 38 MEN independent of Society . B. I..
... - red to their native dignity . Attention to dress is the first symptom of the progress . Male favages , even of the groffelt kind , are are fond of drefs . Charlevoix mentions a young American 38 MEN independent of Society . B. I..
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... fying the beautiful angel he worshipped . Instances of this kind without number , ftand upon record . René , ftyled King of Sicily and Ferufalem , obferves in writing upon tournaments , Sicily 84 MEN independent of Society . B. I..
... fying the beautiful angel he worshipped . Instances of this kind without number , ftand upon record . René , ftyled King of Sicily and Ferufalem , obferves in writing upon tournaments , Sicily 84 MEN independent of Society . B. I..
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... kind . We are not well acquaint- ed with the natural history of these ani- mals ; but it may be prefumed that the young require the nurfing care of both parents . Po- Seals have a fingular economy . lygamy feems to be a law of nature ...
... kind . We are not well acquaint- ed with the natural history of these ani- mals ; but it may be prefumed that the young require the nurfing care of both parents . Po- Seals have a fingular economy . lygamy feems to be a law of nature ...
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... kind . One rule takes place among all brute animals , without a fingle exception , That the female never is burdened with two lit- ters at the same time . The time of gesta- tion is fo unerringly calculated by nature , that the young ...
... kind . One rule takes place among all brute animals , without a fingle exception , That the female never is burdened with two lit- ters at the same time . The time of gesta- tion is fo unerringly calculated by nature , that the young ...
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... kind . Vultures have the fame difpofition . Their ordinary food is a dead carcafe ; and they never venture , but in a body , to attack any living creature that appears formidable . formidable . Upon fociety happi- nefs fo much depends ...
... kind . Vultures have the fame difpofition . Their ordinary food is a dead carcafe ; and they never venture , but in a body , to attack any living creature that appears formidable . formidable . Upon fociety happi- nefs fo much depends ...
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Página 350 - ... if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government: for what property have I in that which another may by right take, when he pleases, to himself?
Página 298 - Rome des divisions; et ces guerriers si fiers, si audacieux, si terribles au dehors, ne pouvaient pas être bien modérés au dedans. Demander dans un État libre des gens hardis dans la guerre et timides dans la paix...
Página 93 - Gregarious birds pair, in order probably to prevent difcord, in a fociety confined to a narrow fpace. This is the cafe particularly of pigeons and rooks. The male and female fit on the eggs alternateN 2 ' '" ly, ly, and divide the care of feeding their young.
Página 10 - But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife ; and they twain shall be one flesh : so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Página 85 - ... that of beauty; she is the delight of her friends as formerly of her admirers.
Página 32 - ... wife is brought in upon us, who is permitted to abuse us and our children because we are no longer regarded. Can human nature endure such tyranny? What kindness can we show to our female children, equal to that of relieving them from such oppression, more bitter a thousand times than death? I say again, would to God that my mother had put me under ground the moment I was born !" Observe, this was not a peculiar case, but a national custom.
Página 27 - Wales, fays, that formerly they hardly ever married without a prior cohabitation ; it having been cuftomary for parents to let out their daughters to young men upon trial, for a fum of money told down, and under a penalty if the girls were returned.
Página 289 - I immediately repaired to him; and he had ftill fenfe enough to know me. He then faid, " And is he dead ?" " Who, my dear ? "
Página 298 - Demander dans un État libre des gens hardis dans la guerre et timides dans la paix, c'est vouloir des choses impossibles ; et, pour règle générale, toutes les fois qu'on verra tout le monde tranquille dans un État qui se donne le nom de République, on peut être assuré que la liberté n'y est pas.
Página 111 - On flesh days, (that is, when meat was not forbidden by the Catholic religion), through the year, breakfast for my lord and lady was a loaf of bread, two manchets, a quart of beer, a quart of wine, half a chine of mutton, or a chine of beef boiled.