Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen1A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... Greeks are fickle , the Gauls flow of " parts , all which diverfities are occafioned by the " climate . " ( b ) Lib . 6. ver . 724 . " diftrustful . 66 " diftrustful . His courage prompts him to be 54 Prel . Difc . Of MEN , and.
... Greeks are fickle , the Gauls flow of " parts , all which diverfities are occafioned by the " climate . " ( b ) Lib . 6. ver . 724 . " diftrustful . 66 " diftrustful . His courage prompts him to be 54 Prel . Difc . Of MEN , and.
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... more extraordinary might have been quoted from Greek and Roman writers : but truth has no occafion for artifice ; and I would not take advan- tage The tage of celebrated names to vouch facts that appear Prel . Difc . of LANGUAGES . 69.
... more extraordinary might have been quoted from Greek and Roman writers : but truth has no occafion for artifice ; and I would not take advan- tage The tage of celebrated names to vouch facts that appear Prel . Difc . of LANGUAGES . 69.
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... Greeks and Romans made an illuftrious figure in poetry , rhetoric , and all the fine arts ; but they were little better than no- vices in natural history . More than half of the globe was to them the Terra Auftra- lis incognita ; and ...
... Greeks and Romans made an illuftrious figure in poetry , rhetoric , and all the fine arts ; but they were little better than no- vices in natural history . More than half of the globe was to them the Terra Auftra- lis incognita ; and ...
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... Greeks and Romans were at that time ex- tremely credulous , being lefs acquainted with neighbouring nations , than we are with the Antipodes . Varro , in his trea- tife De re ruftica , reports it as an undoubt- ed truth , that in ...
... Greeks and Romans were at that time ex- tremely credulous , being lefs acquainted with neighbouring nations , than we are with the Antipodes . Varro , in his trea- tife De re ruftica , reports it as an undoubt- ed truth , that in ...
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... Greeks of old abstained from fifh . laus ( a ) complains , that his companions had been reduced by hunger to that food ; and though the Grecian camp at the fiege of Troy was on the fea - fhore , there is not in Homer a fingle hint of ...
... Greeks of old abstained from fifh . laus ( a ) complains , that his companions had been reduced by hunger to that food ; and though the Grecian camp at the fiege of Troy was on the fea - fhore , there is not in Homer a fingle hint of ...
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