The natural history of society in the barbarous and civilized state |
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... reason- ably offend persons of any creed , sect , or party . In one instance he regrets to find that he has violated the rule ; he has spoken of the Socialists and their plans with more flippancy than he could wish , not because he has ...
... reason- ably offend persons of any creed , sect , or party . In one instance he regrets to find that he has violated the rule ; he has spoken of the Socialists and their plans with more flippancy than he could wish , not because he has ...
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... reason for believing that barbarism was the original condition of mankind , is the supposition that it was the natural state , which we have shewn to be utterly groundless . It is then asked , whence arise all those differences in ...
... reason for believing that barbarism was the original condition of mankind , is the supposition that it was the natural state , which we have shewn to be utterly groundless . It is then asked , whence arise all those differences in ...
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... reason to believe that the population of America was not pro- gressive when first it was discovered by Europeans ; but there is positive evidence that several of the Indian tribes have not kept up their number , even in localities where ...
... reason to believe that the population of America was not pro- gressive when first it was discovered by Europeans ; but there is positive evidence that several of the Indian tribes have not kept up their number , even in localities where ...
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... reason , severe diseases are rarely seen by the casual visitors of savage tribes . Death is their doctor , and the grave their hospital . Those who have resided amongst them testify that diseases are produced by the privations endured ...
... reason , severe diseases are rarely seen by the casual visitors of savage tribes . Death is their doctor , and the grave their hospital . Those who have resided amongst them testify that diseases are produced by the privations endured ...
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... reason to believe that unwritten languages are con- stantly fluctuating . The vocabularies collected by one voyager rarely correspond with those of another ; each lays the blame on the ignorance or carelessness of his 26 CHARACTERISTICS ...
... reason to believe that unwritten languages are con- stantly fluctuating . The vocabularies collected by one voyager rarely correspond with those of another ; each lays the blame on the ignorance or carelessness of his 26 CHARACTERISTICS ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
advance ancient animals aoul appears Archbishop Whately ascribed Asia attribute barbarous become believe Book of Genesis Book of Job called Carthage causes Chaldeans character chief Christianity circumstances civilization common condition consequently crime death degradation deities derived discovered divine domestic earth Egypt Egyptian enemies established evidence evil examination existence extent feelings feet Greece Greeks habits hand hence Herodotus human Idumea Indian indigence individual inhabitants invention Kirghiz knowledge labour land language Lenape less luxury ment moral mounds nations native nature necessary object observed Ohio origin passion peculiar Persians persons Peru Pharaoh Phoenicians polytheism possessed present principle probably produced progress pyramid of Cholula race records religion remarkable rendered Roman Rome savage savage nations says scarcely shew shewn slaves social society spirit tendency thing tion trees tribes truth tumuli village warrior Xochicalco Zealanders
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 91 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen ; and some shall run before his chariots.
Seite 221 - There is the moral of all human tales ; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Seite 321 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Seite 29 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the Last Days.
Seite 109 - For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Seite 323 - WOE to them that go down to Egypt for help; And stay on horses, And trust in chariots, because they are many ; And in horsemen, because they are very strong; But they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, Neither seek the Lord...
Seite 299 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Seite 318 - God, to keep all. the words of this law and these statutes, to do them : that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left : to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Seite 59 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Seite 30 - Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee : thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.