An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of ManBaker & Scribner, 1848 - 739 pages |
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... appear in its present form . The original design was only to write a review of the principles and reasonings of the two eminent works of Lawrence and Prichard ; but my protracted indisposition , and consequent long confinement , gave me ...
... appear in its present form . The original design was only to write a review of the principles and reasonings of the two eminent works of Lawrence and Prichard ; but my protracted indisposition , and consequent long confinement , gave me ...
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... vast , and the objects to be exhibited rich and varied . Although specific differences appear , on the face of the statement , to be objects of primary importance , they are , in fact , subordinate to 44 SUBJECTS PROPOSED TO BE EXAMINED .
... vast , and the objects to be exhibited rich and varied . Although specific differences appear , on the face of the statement , to be objects of primary importance , they are , in fact , subordinate to 44 SUBJECTS PROPOSED TO BE EXAMINED .
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... appear to point to a race of human beings , prior to the creation of Adam and Eve . The question may be asked , if there were human beings created before Adam and Eve , why did God create Adam and Eve ? Whether such a question should be ...
... appear to point to a race of human beings , prior to the creation of Adam and Eve . The question may be asked , if there were human beings created before Adam and Eve , why did God create Adam and Eve ? Whether such a question should be ...
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... appear to point to a race of human beings , prior to the creation of Adam and Eve . - The question may be asked , if there were human beings created before Adam and Eve , why did God create Adam and Eve ? Whether such a question should ...
... appear to point to a race of human beings , prior to the creation of Adam and Eve . - The question may be asked , if there were human beings created before Adam and Eve , why did God create Adam and Eve ? Whether such a question should ...
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... appear to me so very strong that I not only deem him a distinct species , but also put him into a separate order by himself . His physical and moral attributes place him at a much greater distance from all orders of mammalia , than ...
... appear to me so very strong that I not only deem him a distinct species , but also put him into a separate order by himself . His physical and moral attributes place him at a much greater distance from all orders of mammalia , than ...
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An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of Man William Frederick Van Amringe No preview available - 2020 |
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Page 439 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse...
Page 62 - SCRIPTURE AND GEOLOGY; On the Relation between the Holy Scriptures and some parts of Geological Science.
Page 134 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 60 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 438 - I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest...
Page 444 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 86 - But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Page 438 - I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 52 - I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 115 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.