Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen1A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... original climate are requifite . Spanish horfes degenerate in Mexico ; but improve in Chili , having more vigour and fwiftness there , than even the Andalufian race , whofe off - fpring they are . Our dunghill - fowl , imported ...
... original climate are requifite . Spanish horfes degenerate in Mexico ; but improve in Chili , having more vigour and fwiftness there , than even the Andalufian race , whofe off - fpring they are . Our dunghill - fowl , imported ...
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... original male and female cur to have fuffered every pof- fible alteration from climate , food , domef- tication ; the refult would be endlefs vari- eties , fo that no one individual fhould re- femble another . Whence then are deri- ved ...
... original male and female cur to have fuffered every pof- fible alteration from climate , food , domef- tication ; the refult would be endlefs vari- eties , fo that no one individual fhould re- femble another . Whence then are deri- ved ...
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... original vigour . Several Eu- ropean colonies have fubfifted in the torrid zone of America more than two centuries ; and yet even that length of time has not familiarifed them to the climate : they cannot bear heat like the original ...
... original vigour . Several Eu- ropean colonies have fubfifted in the torrid zone of America more than two centuries ; and yet even that length of time has not familiarifed them to the climate : they cannot bear heat like the original ...
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... original nature ? Can one hope for belief in afcribing to climate the low ftature of the Efquimaux , the fmallness of their feet , or the overgrown fize of their head ; or in afcribing to climate the low ftature of the Laplanders ...
... original nature ? Can one hope for belief in afcribing to climate the low ftature of the Efquimaux , the fmallness of their feet , or the overgrown fize of their head ; or in afcribing to climate the low ftature of the Laplanders ...
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... original colour in climates very different from their own ; and not a fingle inftance of the contrary , as far as I can learn . There have been four complete generations of negroes in Pennsylvania , without any vifible change of colour ...
... original colour in climates very different from their own ; and not a fingle inftance of the contrary , as far as I can learn . There have been four complete generations of negroes in Pennsylvania , without any vifible change of colour ...
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