Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen1A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... never banished from his mind , that he would little deserve to be of the human fpecies , were he indif- ferent about his fellow - creatures : Hemo fum : humani nihil a me alienum puto . Moft of the fubjects handled in the fol- lowing ...
... never banished from his mind , that he would little deserve to be of the human fpecies , were he indif- ferent about his fellow - creatures : Hemo fum : humani nihil a me alienum puto . Moft of the fubjects handled in the fol- lowing ...
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... never had feen a rabbit : it throws itself upon the body , and bites it with fury . A hound has the fame faculty with respect to a harc ; and moft dogs have it . Un- lefs directed by nature , innocent animals would not know their enemy ...
... never had feen a rabbit : it throws itself upon the body , and bites it with fury . A hound has the fame faculty with respect to a harc ; and moft dogs have it . Un- lefs directed by nature , innocent animals would not know their enemy ...
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... never once enter into the mind of this author , that the human race would be ftrangely imperfect , if they were unable to diftin- guish a man from a monkey , or a hare from a hedge - hog , till it were known whe- ther they can procreate ...
... never once enter into the mind of this author , that the human race would be ftrangely imperfect , if they were unable to diftin- guish a man from a monkey , or a hare from a hedge - hog , till it were known whe- ther they can procreate ...
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... never can be a- fcribed to chance . There are mongrels , it is true , among dogs , from want of choice , or from a depraved appetite : but as all animals prefer their own kind , mon- grels are few compared with animals of a true breed ...
... never can be a- fcribed to chance . There are mongrels , it is true , among dogs , from want of choice , or from a depraved appetite : but as all animals prefer their own kind , mon- grels are few compared with animals of a true breed ...
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... never yield to climate . In the sub- urbs of Cochin , a town in Malabar , there is a colony of induftrious Jews of the fame complexion they have in Europe . They pretend that they were established there during the captivity of Babylon ...
... never yield to climate . In the sub- urbs of Cochin , a town in Malabar , there is a colony of induftrious Jews of the fame complexion they have in Europe . They pretend that they were established there during the captivity of Babylon ...
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