The Natural History of Man, Or, Popular Chapters on Ethnography, Band 1John Cassell, 1851 - 137 Seiten |
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Abyssinian Africa Albinos American amongst ancient animals appearance Arabs arts Barabra barbarous beautiful belong Berberines body Borneo brown Bugis Bushmen Caffres called Caucasian Celts cheek-bones chief Christian civilization coast colour common complexion Copts cultivate dark Dayak descendants described dialect distinct distinguished Dokos earth Egypt Egyptians Esquimaux Etruscans European existence eyes fact feet forehead Gambier Islands Gauls gods Greeks Guanches habits head Hindoos Hottentots human Indian inhabitants instance islands JOHN CASSELL language lips live Mahommedans Malayo-Polynesian Malays Mandans Mandingos mankind melanous Mexicans Mongol mountains Mulatto nations natives nature Negro race nose origin peculiar Peruvian physical characters Polynesian possess Prichard principal Quichuas regarded region religion remarkable resemblance Roman Rüppell says Scythians skin skull Slavonians South species stature Sumatra Tahiti thick tion tribes various wild women woolly hair writers xanthous variety yellow
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Seite 117 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men...
Seite 105 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave, Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.
Seite 76 - The tambourines, which were struck simultaneously, only interrupted at intervals the song of the priests. As the time quickened, they broke in more frequently. The chant gradually gave way to a lively melody, which, increasing in measure, was finally lost in a confusion of sounds. The tambourines were beaten with extraordinary energy ; the flutes poured forth a rapid flood of notes ; the voices were raised to their highest pitch ; the men outside joined in the cry ; whilst ie women made the rocks...
Seite 134 - Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Seite 9 - Further towards the north are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground, nor live in huts ; who neither eat rice nor salt, and who do not associate with each other, but rove about some woods, like wild beasts.
Seite 94 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Seite 113 - With a look of astonishment and contempt, he held up the piece of wood, and said, ' How can this speak ? has this a mouth ? ' I desired him to take it at once, and not spend so much time in talking about it.
Seite 80 - Upon the whole, every circumstance concurs in proving, that mankind are not composed of species essentially different from each other; that, on the contrary, there was originally but one species...
Seite 30 - I asked for their loom, pointing first to the thread and then to the blanket girded about the woman's loins. A fellow stretched in the dust sunning himself, rose up leisurely, and untied a bundle which I had supposed to be a bow and arrows. This little package, with four stakes in the ground, was the loom. He stretched his cloth, and commenced the process of weaving.
Seite 140 - There is a poor, blind Samson in this land. Shorn of his strength, and bound in bonds of steel, Who may, in some grim revel, raise his hand, And shake the pillars of this Commonweal, Till the vast Temple of our liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies.