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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... battle indeed they utter loud fhouts ; but it is more to animate themselves than to ter rify the enemy . The negroes on the flave - coaft of Guinea are good - natured and obliging ; but not remarkable for courage " . The Laplanders are ...
... battle indeed they utter loud fhouts ; but it is more to animate themselves than to ter rify the enemy . The negroes on the flave - coaft of Guinea are good - natured and obliging ; but not remarkable for courage " . The Laplanders are ...
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... battle : The Malayans and Scandinavians live in oppofite cli- mates , and yet are equally courageous . Provi . dence has placed these nations , each of them , in its proper climate cold would benumb a Ma- layan in Sweden , heat would ...
... battle : The Malayans and Scandinavians live in oppofite cli- mates , and yet are equally courageous . Provi . dence has placed these nations , each of them , in its proper climate cold would benumb a Ma- layan in Sweden , heat would ...
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... battle - array . Inftruments of defence are made neceffary by thofe of offence . Trunks of trees , interlaced with branches , and fupported with earth , made the firft fortifications ; to which fucceeded a wall finifhed with a parapet ...
... battle - array . Inftruments of defence are made neceffary by thofe of offence . Trunks of trees , interlaced with branches , and fupported with earth , made the firft fortifications ; to which fucceeded a wall finifhed with a parapet ...
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... battle to mighty kings . ' I fhould not have given so many inftances of puerilities in compofition , were they not the performance of a great philo- fopher . Low indeed must have been the taste of that age , when it infected its ...
... battle to mighty kings . ' I fhould not have given so many inftances of puerilities in compofition , were they not the performance of a great philo- fopher . Low indeed must have been the taste of that age , when it infected its ...
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... battle perfectly found . Hector , ftruck to the ground with a stone , and at the point of giving up the ghoft , is cured by Apollo , and fent back to the battle with redou- bled vigor . Homer resembles a fect of Chriftians , who hold ...
... battle perfectly found . Hector , ftruck to the ground with a stone , and at the point of giving up the ghoft , is cured by Apollo , and fent back to the battle with redou- bled vigor . Homer resembles a fect of Chriftians , who hold ...
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