The Four Ages; Together with Essays on Various SubjectsCadell and Davies, 1798 - 454 страница |
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... , and breast are painted with vermillion ( co- lour ) and fome of the warriors have the skin of the breast , and mufcular parts of the body very curiously B 3 Robert Drury's account of the practice of ftealing cattle in [ 5 ]
... , and breast are painted with vermillion ( co- lour ) and fome of the warriors have the skin of the breast , and mufcular parts of the body very curiously B 3 Robert Drury's account of the practice of ftealing cattle in [ 5 ]
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William Jackson. Robert Drury's account of the practice of ftealing cattle in Madagascar , differs in no circumstance from the Journal of a Focray , headed by Sir T. Carleton ; as given in the Introduction to the Survey of the Lakes in ...
William Jackson. Robert Drury's account of the practice of ftealing cattle in Madagascar , differs in no circumstance from the Journal of a Focray , headed by Sir T. Carleton ; as given in the Introduction to the Survey of the Lakes in ...
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... practice that has ever obtained in the defpotic Mahometan governments . I shall not stain my paper with many examples from the numberless instances which our hiftories furnish : but fome- thing must be produced to prove my af- sertion ...
... practice that has ever obtained in the defpotic Mahometan governments . I shall not stain my paper with many examples from the numberless instances which our hiftories furnish : but fome- thing must be produced to prove my af- sertion ...
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... practice ; but now , the doctrine is fo firmly established , that we do not at- tend to any opinion in natural philosophy unfupported by experiment . It was by experiment that Boyle fhewed the pro- perties of the atmosphere , and that ...
... practice ; but now , the doctrine is fo firmly established , that we do not at- tend to any opinion in natural philosophy unfupported by experiment . It was by experiment that Boyle fhewed the pro- perties of the atmosphere , and that ...
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... practiced as effentials , by the moderns . From the pictures which have escaped the general wreck of time and military destruction , we cannot in justice think , that the painters of ancient Greece and Rome are to be compared with those ...
... practiced as effentials , by the moderns . From the pictures which have escaped the general wreck of time and military destruction , we cannot in justice think , that the painters of ancient Greece and Rome are to be compared with those ...
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