Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen 1W. Creech, 1807 |
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... land would be uninhabitable but for rein - deer , an animal fo entirely fitted for piercing cold , that it cannot fubfist even in a temperate climate . Ara- bian and Barbary horfes degenerate in Britain ; and , to preferve the breed in ...
... land would be uninhabitable but for rein - deer , an animal fo entirely fitted for piercing cold , that it cannot fubfist even in a temperate climate . Ara- bian and Barbary horfes degenerate in Britain ; and , to preferve the breed in ...
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... land and fea - breezes , recruits from Britain are ne- ceffary to keep up the numbers * . The climate of the northern provinces refembles our own , and population goes on rapidly . What means are employed by Providence to qualify ...
... land and fea - breezes , recruits from Britain are ne- ceffary to keep up the numbers * . The climate of the northern provinces refembles our own , and population goes on rapidly . What means are employed by Providence to qualify ...
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... land , as to produce these ftriking differences . At any rate , there must be a confiderable mixture both of foil and climate in these extenfive regions ; and yet not the leaft mixture is perceived in the people . If the climate have ...
... land , as to produce these ftriking differences . At any rate , there must be a confiderable mixture both of foil and climate in these extenfive regions ; and yet not the leaft mixture is perceived in the people . If the climate have ...
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... land of cowardice . They never observe a treaty of peace when they have any temptation to break it ; and are perpe- tually at war with their neighbours , or with one another . Inftances there are of twenty - five or thir- ty of them in ...
... land of cowardice . They never observe a treaty of peace when they have any temptation to break it ; and are perpe- tually at war with their neighbours , or with one another . Inftances there are of twenty - five or thir- ty of them in ...
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... land must be of a race very different from those whom Dampier faw , A It is remarkable , that these people roaft their meat with hot ftones , as the Caledonians did in the days of Offian . A noted author * holds all favages to be bold ...
... land must be of a race very different from those whom Dampier faw , A It is remarkable , that these people roaft their meat with hot ftones , as the Caledonians did in the days of Offian . A noted author * holds all favages to be bold ...
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Página 166 - Elimelech's: and I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it : but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know : for there is none to redeem it beside thee ; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
Página 165 - ... kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth : lie down until the morning.
Página 171 - And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
Página 161 - And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty...
Página 165 - And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
Página 162 - Hearest thou not my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens : let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them : have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
Página 161 - And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers : and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
Página 159 - The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
Página 160 - Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb that they may be your husbands?