Sketches of the History of Man: Considerably Enlarged by the Last Additions and Corrections of the Author. ...J. J. Tourneisen, 1796 - 376 páginas |
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... ancient custom in Africa of dying the skin black . Let a European for years expofe himself to the fun in a hot climate , till he be quite brown , his children will nevertheless have the fame complexion with thofe in Europe . The Hotten ...
... ancient custom in Africa of dying the skin black . Let a European for years expofe himself to the fun in a hot climate , till he be quite brown , his children will nevertheless have the fame complexion with thofe in Europe . The Hotten ...
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... ancient practice of expofing them . The affection of the mother commences with the birth of the child ; and , had fhe a vote , no infant would ever be deftroyed . But as the affection of the father begins much later , the prac tice of ...
... ancient practice of expofing them . The affection of the mother commences with the birth of the child ; and , had fhe a vote , no infant would ever be deftroyed . But as the affection of the father begins much later , the prac tice of ...
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... ancient writers , even when they relate and believe facts to us incredible . Men at that period were ignorant in a great mea fure of nature , and of the limits of her operations , One conceffion will chearfully be made to me , that the ...
... ancient writers , even when they relate and believe facts to us incredible . Men at that period were ignorant in a great mea fure of nature , and of the limits of her operations , One conceffion will chearfully be made to me , that the ...
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... ancient Caledo- nians depended almost entirely on deer for food , because in a cold country the fruits that grow fpontaneously afford little nourishment ; and do- mestic animals , which at present so much abound , were not early known ...
... ancient Caledo- nians depended almost entirely on deer for food , because in a cold country the fruits that grow fpontaneously afford little nourishment ; and do- mestic animals , which at present so much abound , were not early known ...
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... ancient monarchies of Affyria and Babylon have been fo populous and powerful as they are faid to have been . In the northern parts of Europe , wheat , barley , peafe , and perhaps oats , are foreign plants as the climate is not friendly ...
... ancient monarchies of Affyria and Babylon have been fo populous and powerful as they are faid to have been . In the northern parts of Europe , wheat , barley , peafe , and perhaps oats , are foreign plants as the climate is not friendly ...
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