Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen1A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... thing but rocks covered with mofs : it would be fcarce habitable but for rain- deer , on which the Laplanders chiefly de- pend for food . * The Cormantees , a tribe of negroes on the Gold coaft , are indeed brave and intrepid . When ...
... thing but rocks covered with mofs : it would be fcarce habitable but for rain- deer , on which the Laplanders chiefly de- pend for food . * The Cormantees , a tribe of negroes on the Gold coaft , are indeed brave and intrepid . When ...
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... thing will pafs for a caufe ; and fhallow writers deal in fuch causes . I need no better instance than the pre- fent : for , if I mistake not , effects directly oppofite may be drawn from the caufe affigned by this writer ; as plaufible ...
... thing will pafs for a caufe ; and fhallow writers deal in fuch causes . I need no better instance than the pre- fent : for , if I mistake not , effects directly oppofite may be drawn from the caufe affigned by this writer ; as plaufible ...
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... things at fecond- hand , are much more excufable than the earliest of our modern travellers , who pre- tend to vouch endlefs wonders from their own knowledge . Natural hiftory , that of man especially , is of late years much ripen- ed ...
... things at fecond- hand , are much more excufable than the earliest of our modern travellers , who pre- tend to vouch endlefs wonders from their own knowledge . Natural hiftory , that of man especially , is of late years much ripen- ed ...
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... thing would be reftrained from them " which they imagined to do , confound- " ed their language , that they might not " underftand one another ; and fcattered " them abroad upon the face of all the " earth . " Here light breaks forth in ...
... thing would be reftrained from them " which they imagined to do , confound- " ed their language , that they might not " underftand one another ; and fcattered " them abroad upon the face of all the " earth . " Here light breaks forth in ...
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... thing known a mong them as rotten teeth : the very fmell of wine or fpirits is difagreeable ; and they never deal in tobacco nor fpiceries . In many places Indian corn is the chief nou- rishment , which every man plants for him- felf ...
... thing known a mong them as rotten teeth : the very fmell of wine or fpirits is difagreeable ; and they never deal in tobacco nor fpiceries . In many places Indian corn is the chief nou- rishment , which every man plants for him- felf ...
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