Sketches of the History of Man: In Four Volumes, Volume 1W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, and W. Creech, 1778 |
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... body , and bites it with fury . A bound has the fame faculty with refpect t hare ; and most dogs have it . Unless di ating rected by nature , innocent animals would not know their enemy till they were in its clutches , A hare flies with ...
... body , and bites it with fury . A bound has the fame faculty with refpect t hare ; and most dogs have it . Unless di ating rected by nature , innocent animals would not know their enemy till they were in its clutches , A hare flies with ...
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... body the nations from which they fprung . The Spanish inhabitants of Car- thagena in South America lofe their vigour and colour in a few months . Their mo- tions are languid ; and their words are pronounced in a low voice , and with ...
... body the nations from which they fprung . The Spanish inhabitants of Car- thagena in South America lofe their vigour and colour in a few months . Their mo- tions are languid ; and their words are pronounced in a low voice , and with ...
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... bodies were not painted ; but handfomely clothed , from the middle downward , with filk fringes in neat folds . Large hats fcreened the face from the fun , and collars of odori- ferous flowers furrounded the neck . The view of the ...
... bodies were not painted ; but handfomely clothed , from the middle downward , with filk fringes in neat folds . Large hats fcreened the face from the fun , and collars of odori- ferous flowers furrounded the neck . The view of the ...
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... bodies in new worlds they find . Thus life for ever runs its endless race , 1 And , like a line , Death but divides the space à A ftop which can but for a moment last , " A point between the future and the past . Thrice happy they ...
... bodies in new worlds they find . Thus life for ever runs its endless race , 1 And , like a line , Death but divides the space à A ftop which can but for a moment last , " A point between the future and the past . Thrice happy they ...
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... body " in a temperate ftate ; but where his 66 rays are more fierce , he drains the body " of moisture . In very cold regions , " where the moisture is not fuck'd up by " the heat , the body fucking in the dewy " air , rifes to a great ...
... body " in a temperate ftate ; but where his 66 rays are more fierce , he drains the body " of moisture . In very cold regions , " where the moisture is not fuck'd up by " the heat , the body fucking in the dewy " air , rifes to a great ...
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