Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen1A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... produce . It is cafy to form plaufible arguments ; but to form fuch as can ftand the teft of time , is not always easy . I could amuse the reader with numerous examples of con- jectural arguments , which , fair at a distant view ...
... produce . It is cafy to form plaufible arguments ; but to form fuch as can ftand the teft of time , is not always easy . I could amuse the reader with numerous examples of con- jectural arguments , which , fair at a distant view ...
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... produces . Wheat is not an indigenous plant in Britain : no farmer is ignorant that foreign feed is re- quifite to preferve the plant in vigour , To prevent flax from degenerating in Scot- land and Ireland , great quantities of fo ...
... produces . Wheat is not an indigenous plant in Britain : no farmer is ignorant that foreign feed is re- quifite to preferve the plant in vigour , To prevent flax from degenerating in Scot- land and Ireland , great quantities of fo ...
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... produce a mongrel , a mule for example , which feldom procreates , if at all . In * That every fpecies of plants has a proper climate where it grows to perfection , is a fact uncontroverted . The fame holds in brute animals ...
... produce a mongrel , a mule for example , which feldom procreates , if at all . In * That every fpecies of plants has a proper climate where it grows to perfection , is a fact uncontroverted . The fame holds in brute animals ...
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... produced generate others without end . M. Buffon , in his natural hiftory , bor- rows from Ray ( a ) a very artificial rule for afcertaining the different fpecies of a- nimals : " Any two animals that can pro- 66 create together , and ...
... produced generate others without end . M. Buffon , in his natural hiftory , bor- rows from Ray ( a ) a very artificial rule for afcertaining the different fpecies of a- nimals : " Any two animals that can pro- 66 create together , and ...
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... produce a mixed breed ? M. Buffon muft fay , that it is contrary to a law of nature . But has he given any e- vidence of this fuppofed law of nature ? On the contrary , he proves it by various inftances not to be a law of nature . He ...
... produce a mixed breed ? M. Buffon muft fay , that it is contrary to a law of nature . But has he given any e- vidence of this fuppofed law of nature ? On the contrary , he proves it by various inftances not to be a law of nature . He ...
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