Observations on the Climate in Different Parts of America: Compared with the Climate in Corresponding Parts of the Other Continent. To which are Added, Remarks on the Different Complexions of the Human Race; with Some Account of the Aborigines of America. Being an Introductory Discourse to The History of North-Carolina ...

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T. & J. Swords, 1811 - 199 Seiten

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Seite 165 - caused it to rain upon the earth. But there went up a " mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the « ground.
Seite 155 - Then shall the dust return to the earth as it " was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
Seite 79 - Quoique le sauvage du nouveau monde soit à peu près " de même stature que l'homme de notre monde, cela ne " suffit pas pour qu'il puisse faire une exception au fait " général du rapetissement de la nature vivante dans tout «' ce continent Le sauvage est foible & petit par les
Seite 155 - The wicked is driven away in his " wickedness, but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Seite 19 - He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes; he casteth forth his ice like morsels: who
Seite ii - and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled,
Seite ii - title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, viz.
Seite ii - Independence of the United States of America, Thomas and James Swords, of the said district, hare deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following,
Seite 161 - This, however, had produced no alteration in the climate of Egypt. The fruits of the earth, and the phenomena of the Nile, had always been the same; nor had any extraordinary or fatal diseases occurred.
Seite 148 - God made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters assuaged.

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