Sketches of the History of Man: In Four Volumes, Volume 1W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, and W. Creech, 1778 |
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... continue dif- tinct to this day ? Our author pretends to derive the maftiff , the bull - dog , the hound , the greyhound , the terrier , the water - dog , & c . all of them from the prick - ear'd shepherd's cur . Now , admit- ting the ...
... continue dif- tinct to this day ? Our author pretends to derive the maftiff , the bull - dog , the hound , the greyhound , the terrier , the water - dog , & c . all of them from the prick - ear'd shepherd's cur . Now , admit- ting the ...
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... continue jet - black as originally . The Moors in Hindoftan retain their natural colour , tho ' tranfplant- ed there more than three centuries ago . And the Mogul family continue white , like their ancestors the Tartars , tho ' they ...
... continue jet - black as originally . The Moors in Hindoftan retain their natural colour , tho ' tranfplant- ed there more than three centuries ago . And the Mogul family continue white , like their ancestors the Tartars , tho ' they ...
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... continue to this day pure without mixture , which act by inftinct not art , which have not learned to difguifer their paffions to fuch I confine the inquiry . There is no propenfity in human nature more general than averfion from ftran ...
... continue to this day pure without mixture , which act by inftinct not art , which have not learned to difguifer their paffions to fuch I confine the inquiry . There is no propenfity in human nature more general than averfion from ftran ...
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... continue diftinct from each other , and have each a different lan- guage . The mother - tongues at prefent , tho ' numerous , bear no proportion to what formerly exifted . We find original tribes gradually enlarging ; by conqueft ...
... continue diftinct from each other , and have each a different lan- guage . The mother - tongues at prefent , tho ' numerous , bear no proportion to what formerly exifted . We find original tribes gradually enlarging ; by conqueft ...
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... continue favages . To trace out that progrefs toward maturity in different nations , is the fubject of the fent undertaking . pre- SKETCHES SKETCHES O F THE P HISTORY OF MAN . воок 84 Prel , Difc . Of MEN , & c . deprived them of ...
... continue favages . To trace out that progrefs toward maturity in different nations , is the fubject of the fent undertaking . pre- SKETCHES SKETCHES O F THE P HISTORY OF MAN . воок 84 Prel , Difc . Of MEN , & c . deprived them of ...
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