Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen1A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... European , upon the first fight of a cow in Africa , ftrokes it as gentle and in- nocent : and an African avoids a tiger in Hindoftan as at home . If the foregoing theory be well founded , neither experience nor argument is requi- red ...
... European , upon the first fight of a cow in Africa , ftrokes it as gentle and in- nocent : and an African avoids a tiger in Hindoftan as at home . If the foregoing theory be well founded , neither experience nor argument is requi- red ...
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... European ; and is fo in reality , no less than two degrees on Far- henheit's thermometer . The young wo- men there are highly prized by the Turks for that quality . Thus it appears , that there are different races of men fitted by ...
... European ; and is fo in reality , no less than two degrees on Far- henheit's thermometer . The young wo- men there are highly prized by the Turks for that quality . Thus it appears , that there are different races of men fitted by ...
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... Europe , black in Afri- " Man , ca , yellow in Afia , and red in America , " is ftill the fame animal , tinged only " with the colour of the climate . Where " the heat is exceffive , as in Guinea and Senegal , the people are perfectly ...
... Europe , black in Afri- " Man , ca , yellow in Afia , and red in America , " is ftill the fame animal , tinged only " with the colour of the climate . Where " the heat is exceffive , as in Guinea and Senegal , the people are perfectly ...
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... European complexion . Neither doth the black colour of fome Africans , nor the brown colour of others , correfpond to the climate . The people of the defert of Zaa- ra , commonly termed Lower Ethiopia , though expofed to the vertical ...
... European complexion . Neither doth the black colour of fome Africans , nor the brown colour of others , correfpond to the climate . The people of the defert of Zaa- ra , commonly termed Lower Ethiopia , though expofed to the vertical ...
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... Europe . They pretend that they were established there during the captivity of Babylon : it is certain that they have been many ages in that country . Those who afcribe all to the fun , ought to confider how little pro- bable it is ...
... Europe . They pretend that they were established there during the captivity of Babylon : it is certain that they have been many ages in that country . Those who afcribe all to the fun , ought to confider how little pro- bable it is ...
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