Prehistoric Man: Researches in the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World, Volum 2Macmillan, 1862 |
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Pàgina 57
... descendant of the Spanish conqueror ; and , therefore , he cherished the belief that , with restored freedom , and the influences of a native civilisation , uniting to cultivate the faculties of the Indian , he might be elevated to the ...
... descendant of the Spanish conqueror ; and , therefore , he cherished the belief that , with restored freedom , and the influences of a native civilisation , uniting to cultivate the faculties of the Indian , he might be elevated to the ...
Pàgina 58
... descendants of Gaul , Lom- bard , Ostrogoth , Arab , Norman , and Austrian intruders ; but among them all the observant traveller still detects , at times , the old native Roman type , essentially the same as he sees sculptured on the ...
... descendants of Gaul , Lom- bard , Ostrogoth , Arab , Norman , and Austrian intruders ; but among them all the observant traveller still detects , at times , the old native Roman type , essentially the same as he sees sculptured on the ...
Pàgina 59
... descendants of Gaul , Lom- bard , Ostrogoth , Arab , Norman , and Austrian intruders ; but among them all the observant traveller still detects , at times , the old native Roman type , essentially the same as he sees sculptured on the ...
... descendants of Gaul , Lom- bard , Ostrogoth , Arab , Norman , and Austrian intruders ; but among them all the observant traveller still detects , at times , the old native Roman type , essentially the same as he sees sculptured on the ...
Pàgina 59
... descendants of Gaul , Lom- bard , Ostrogoth , Arab , Norman , and Austrian intruders ; but among them all the observant traveller still detects , at times , the old native Roman type , essentially the same . as he sees sculptured on the ...
... descendants of Gaul , Lom- bard , Ostrogoth , Arab , Norman , and Austrian intruders ; but among them all the observant traveller still detects , at times , the old native Roman type , essentially the same . as he sees sculptured on the ...
Pàgina 61
... descendants of native conquered and con- quering races in one indiscriminate degradation . That these remains should have been found only in a few im- perfect and scanty traces on the Mexican soil , accords with the transitional ...
... descendants of native conquered and con- quering races in one indiscriminate degradation . That these remains should have been found only in a few im- perfect and scanty traces on the Mexican soil , accords with the transitional ...
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Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volum 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Visualització completa - 1862 |
Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volum 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Visualització completa - 1862 |
Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volum 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Visualització completa - 1862 |
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Pàgina 97 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Pàgina 378 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Pàgina 271 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Pàgina 387 - Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which. they discover the loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know.
Pàgina 427 - Prize Essay for 1877. 8vo. &r. 6d. SMITH— Works by the Rev. BARNARD SMITH, MA, Rector of Glaston, Rutland, late Fellow and Senior Bursar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA, in their Principles and Application ; with numerous systematically arranged Examples taken from the Cambridge Examination Papers, with especial reference to the Ordinary Examination for the BA Degree.
Pàgina 93 - Egyptians ; one displaced from its pedestal by enormous roots ; another locked in the close embrace of branches of trees, and almost lifted out of the earth ; another hurled to the ground, and bound down by huge vines and creepers ; and one standing, with its altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing ; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people.
Pàgina 5 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Pàgina 429 - An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions. By PG TAIT, MA, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh ; formerly Fellow of St Peter's College, Cambridge. Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 14^.
Pàgina 226 - The nations of America, except those which border the Polar circle, form a single race, characterized by the formation of the skull, the colour of the skin, the extreme thinness of the beard, and the straight glossy hair.
Pàgina 99 - We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished...