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 ...T. & J. Swords, 1811 - 199 Seiten |
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... called fair or white , there are so many shapes and shades , that no two men could be expected to agree in fixing where the white ends , and where the tawny , the red , the brown , or olive begins . The shapes and features of different ...
... called fair or white , there are so many shapes and shades , that no two men could be expected to agree in fixing where the white ends , and where the tawny , the red , the brown , or olive begins . The shapes and features of different ...
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... called " coq de Inde , " the cock of India , alluding per- haps to the West - Indies . It will hardly be alleged that the Greeks or Romans were acquainted with the turkey ; for the fowl which they called Meleagris , or Gallina Africana ...
... called " coq de Inde , " the cock of India , alluding per- haps to the West - Indies . It will hardly be alleged that the Greeks or Romans were acquainted with the turkey ; for the fowl which they called Meleagris , or Gallina Africana ...
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... called the national feature . Every man observes that the Eng- lish face differs from the Scots face . He ob- serves also that the French , the Spanish , the German , and the Polish faces differ from one another and from the English ...
... called the national feature . Every man observes that the Eng- lish face differs from the Scots face . He ob- serves also that the French , the Spanish , the German , and the Polish faces differ from one another and from the English ...
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... called man with so much propriety as a goat may be called a sheep . He stands upon one of the steps between the man of Europe and the monkey of Asia , being somewhat su- perior to the ourang outang . Let us examine the chief arguments ...
... called man with so much propriety as a goat may be called a sheep . He stands upon one of the steps between the man of Europe and the monkey of Asia , being somewhat su- perior to the ourang outang . Let us examine the chief arguments ...
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... called , the facial angle ; or the angle that is included between two lines , one of them extending from the ear to the lower part of the upper jaw ; the other line extending from this part up- wards along the forehead . It is observed ...
... called , the facial angle ; or the angle that is included between two lines , one of them extending from the ear to the lower part of the upper jaw ; the other line extending from this part up- wards along the forehead . It is observed ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
alleged America American savage ancestors animals antiquity Apelachian appears arts Asia Atlantic Atlantic Ocean atmosphere beast become body Brahmans cause coast colder colonies colour complexion covered cultivation degenerate degree of cold degree of latitude discovered earth easterly eastward effect Egypt Egyptians Europe evaporation Falkland islands flood fluid formed formerly greater greatly Greenland Gulf stream habits hair heat Hence it follows Herodotus high latitudes Hindoos historians human race hundred Iceland Indians inhabitants islands Jews land lately lati latitude less live migrated Moses mountains nation natives nature navigation nearly Nootka Sound observed ocean old continent opinion Panonia papillæ Persia philosophers present prevail produced quadrupeds rain reason regions river Siberia Sir William Jones skin snow soil South-America supposed surface Tartars temperate temperature thousand tion trade wind tudes tumuli turkey vernal equinox Vinland warm climates warmer westerly winds winter
Beliebte Passagen
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.