The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful Knowledge ...A. Phelps, 1826 - 312 страница |
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... various half - starved savage tribes , do not exceed twenty thousand ; while , on an equal space of country in China , two or three hundred millions , aided # by the arts of civilization , are much better 8 ARTS OF SAVAGE LIFE .
... various half - starved savage tribes , do not exceed twenty thousand ; while , on an equal space of country in China , two or three hundred millions , aided # by the arts of civilization , are much better 8 ARTS OF SAVAGE LIFE .
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... countries ; and such are boundaries of knowledge , among all aboriginal people : let us now consider him in a better ... country to find pasture wheresoever they pleased . 25. In the pastoral ages of husbandry , there was no property in ...
... countries ; and such are boundaries of knowledge , among all aboriginal people : let us now consider him in a better ... country to find pasture wheresoever they pleased . 25. In the pastoral ages of husbandry , there was no property in ...
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... countries , it is but little cultivated ; and subsistence is precarious ; notwith- standing the fertility of the soil , and the general char- acter of the climates . 27. The recognition and protection of property in the soil , are the ...
... countries , it is but little cultivated ; and subsistence is precarious ; notwith- standing the fertility of the soil , and the general char- acter of the climates . 27. The recognition and protection of property in the soil , are the ...
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... country , without cultivation , above one human inhab- tant to two square miles ; and even on that space , subsistence is obtained with difficulty ; such are the triumphs of art over nature ! 60. In England and Wales there are ten ...
... country , without cultivation , above one human inhab- tant to two square miles ; and even on that space , subsistence is obtained with difficulty ; such are the triumphs of art over nature ! 60. In England and Wales there are ten ...
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... countries being obliged to depend on wood ; which is often scarce and dear . Obs . - Coals are , in all probability , the remains of submerg- ed forests , brought to their present state by some unknown process of subterranean chemistry ...
... countries being obliged to depend on wood ; which is often scarce and dear . Obs . - Coals are , in all probability , the remains of submerg- ed forests , brought to their present state by some unknown process of subterranean chemistry ...
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