An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species. To which are Added, Animadversions on Certain Remarks Made on the First Edition of this Essay, by Mr. Charles White ... Also, Strictures on Lord Kaim's Discourse on the Original Diversity of Mankind. And an AppendixJ. Simpson and Company, 1810 - 411 Seiten |
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... is their number ? Where do they now exist pure and unmixed ? — Philosophers have never been able to give to these questions such precise and definite solutions as are sufficient to satisfy an inquisitive and discriminating mind . That 12.
... is their number ? Where do they now exist pure and unmixed ? — Philosophers have never been able to give to these questions such precise and definite solutions as are sufficient to satisfy an inquisitive and discriminating mind . That 12.
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... gives himself up to listless and gloomy indolence . And , though he has derived from his ancestors , who probably emigrated from different regions in the old world , the rudiments of the arts of hunting and fish- ing , which might have ...
... gives himself up to listless and gloomy indolence . And , though he has derived from his ancestors , who probably emigrated from different regions in the old world , the rudiments of the arts of hunting and fish- ing , which might have ...
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... give the red or black complexion to the hair ; since it is ob- served , in red haired families , if one person accidentally differs from the law of the house , it is most commonly to the opposite colour of black ; and the reverse of ...
... give the red or black complexion to the hair ; since it is ob- served , in red haired families , if one person accidentally differs from the law of the house , it is most commonly to the opposite colour of black ; and the reverse of ...
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... give this denomination to the entire region of prevailing cold in that quarter of the globe , is much wider than in Europe . Asia , in- deed , can hardly be said to know a temperate zone . From the northern ocean to the Caucasian or ...
... give this denomination to the entire region of prevailing cold in that quarter of the globe , is much wider than in Europe . Asia , in- deed , can hardly be said to know a temperate zone . From the northern ocean to the Caucasian or ...
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... give it a permanent character , and so to incorporate it into the constitution , as to render it an hereditary property of the race . The sanguine , or the fair com- plexion will , for this reason , be perpetual in the higher latitudes ...
... give it a permanent character , and so to incorporate it into the constitution , as to render it an hereditary property of the race . The sanguine , or the fair com- plexion will , for this reason , be perpetual in the higher latitudes ...
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aboriginal Africa African America anatomists ancestors animals appearance arctic circle arts ascribed Asia atmosphere beauty become bile Blumenbach body Caspian sea causes character chiefly civilized climate cold complexion constitution continent countenance dark colour deformed degree descendents distinguished effect enemies essay Europe European example exist exposed extreme fact farther India figure forests frequently genius ginal globe greater habits of living hair heat human nature ideas Ignatius Sancho indian influence inhabitants islands Kaims labor Lapland latitudes less limbs lordship mankind manners Monomotapa nations natives negro northern observation original Pacific ocean peculiar persons philosophers portion principles produced proportion race racter region remark render resemblance rude SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH seen Senegal shades skin slaves society southern species subsistence suffer surprizing Tartar temperate temperature tion torrid zone treme tribes tropical ture varieties various warrior whole women writers zone
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Seite 282 - And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Seite 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 263 - Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to the whites ; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid : and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.
Seite 264 - Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. — Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination.
Seite 2 - An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species. To which are added, Animadversions on certain Remarks made on the first edition of this Essay, by Mr. Charles White, in a series of Discourses delivered before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester in England. Also, Strictures on LordKaims ' Discourse on the Original Diversity of Mankind.
Seite 274 - ... many have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries where the arts and sciences are cultivated to a considerable degree, and have had before their eyes samples of the best works from abroad.
Seite 264 - Most of them indeed have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated that they might have availed themselves of the conversation of their masters; many have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites.
Seite 37 - Asiatick continent we pass at once from the fair to the olive, and thence by various gradations in the darkness of the hue, to the black, colour which prevails in the southern provinces of the peninsulas of Arabia and India.
Seite 2 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Seite 266 - I am not prepared either to deny or affirm. 1 am inclined, however, to ascribe the apparent dullness of the negro principally to the wretched state of his existence first in his original country, where he is at once a poor and abject savage, and subjected to an atrocious despotism; and afterwards in those regions to which he is transported to finish his days in slavery, and toil. Genius, in order to its cultivation, and the advantageous display of its...