An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human SpeciesJ. Simpson and Company, 1810 - 411 Seiten |
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... Asia , and present man to us in a * The argument from history will be found handsomely illus- trated by Mr. David Doig of Sterling in Scotland , in three let- ters addressed to Lord Kaims , and published in one small duo- decimo volume ...
... Asia , and present man to us in a * The argument from history will be found handsomely illus- trated by Mr. David Doig of Sterling in Scotland , in three let- ters addressed to Lord Kaims , and published in one small duo- decimo volume ...
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... Asia ; and Italy extended her arts to Germany and Gaul . But history presents to us no tribe originally and per- fectly savage who has voluntarily sought from abroad , and introduced among themselves the manners , and the arts of any ...
... Asia ; and Italy extended her arts to Germany and Gaul . But history presents to us no tribe originally and per- fectly savage who has voluntarily sought from abroad , and introduced among themselves the manners , and the arts of any ...
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... Asia , they there prepar- ed the elements of future nations . Thus mankind , either in a civilized , or savage state , became diffused in time over the surface of the whole globe . In every position suffering the influences of the ...
... Asia , they there prepar- ed the elements of future nations . Thus mankind , either in a civilized , or savage state , became diffused in time over the surface of the whole globe . In every position suffering the influences of the ...
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... Asia , if I may 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 ...
... Asia , if I may 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 ...
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... Asia , in this part , presents the figure of the roof of a house , offering its southern side more perpendicularly to the rays of the sun , while the northern side , declining from them , disperses them over a larger surface . At the ...
... Asia , in this part , presents the figure of the roof of a house , offering its southern side more perpendicularly to the rays of the sun , while the northern side , declining from them , disperses them over a larger surface . At the ...
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Africa African America American Philosophical Society anatomists animals appearance arts ascribed Asia atmosphere beauty become bile Blumenbach body causes character Charles White chiefly civilized climate cold complexion constitution continent countenance dark colour deformed degree descendents distinguished effect enemies equally essay Europe European 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 JOSIAH SIMPSON Kaims labor Lapland latitudes less limbs Lord Kaims mankind manners nations natives negro New-Jersey northern observations original Pacific ocean peculiar persons philosopher portion principles produced proportion race racter regions religion remarks render resemblance rude SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH seen Senegal shades skin slaves society southern subsistence suffer surprizing Tartar temperate temperature tion torrid zone tribes tropical ture varieties various warrior whole women writers zone
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Seite 264 - 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 257 - Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. — Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry.
Seite 245 - 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 246 - 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 2 - cast out an orphan of nature, naked and helpless, into the savage forest, must have perished before he could have learned how to supply his most immediate and urgent wants. Suppose him to have been created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers, how long must it have been before he could have known the proper use of his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree ?
Seite 248 - 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...
Seite 313 - By confounding the language of men, and fcattering them abroad upon thp face of all the earth, they were rendered favages. And to harden them for their new habitations, it was neceflary that they mould be divided into different kinds, fitted for different climates.