An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of ManBaker & Scribner, 1848 - 739 pages |
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... language of Josephus not the language of the patriarchs . Arabian geography against Josephus . Grecian history . Pelasgians not originally savages . How the name Ionia came to be applied to Greece . Not from Japheth , but from Ion , the ...
... language of Josephus not the language of the patriarchs . Arabian geography against Josephus . Grecian history . Pelasgians not originally savages . How the name Ionia came to be applied to Greece . Not from Japheth , but from Ion , the ...
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... Language . Origin of . Not artificial . Duponceau and Richardson's opinions . Dr. Blair's theory examined . Vocabulary of Adam . Variety of Languages . Affiliation of Languages . Shemitic , Japhethic , Ishmaelitic , and Canaanitic Lan ...
... Language . Origin of . Not artificial . Duponceau and Richardson's opinions . Dr. Blair's theory examined . Vocabulary of Adam . Variety of Languages . Affiliation of Languages . Shemitic , Japhethic , Ishmaelitic , and Canaanitic Lan ...
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... language , until the dispersion of men from the valley of Shinar , -are truths which do not now depend solely upon the Mosaic history . They have been most surprisingly illustrated by the progress of scientific knowledge . Thus it has ...
... language , until the dispersion of men from the valley of Shinar , -are truths which do not now depend solely upon the Mosaic history . They have been most surprisingly illustrated by the progress of scientific knowledge . Thus it has ...
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... language , as the Moors do from the Negroes . A slender figure , an European visage , though somewhat yellow in complexion , curled hair and long beard , distinguish the Tartar from the squat , shapeless monster , with a flat nose ...
... language , as the Moors do from the Negroes . A slender figure , an European visage , though somewhat yellow in complexion , curled hair and long beard , distinguish the Tartar from the squat , shapeless monster , with a flat nose ...
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... language , we say that the peculiar characteristics of man appear to us so very strong , that we not only deem him a distinct order of ani- mals , but also put him into a separate class by him- self . His psychical or spiritual ...
... language , we say that the peculiar characteristics of man appear to us so very strong , that we not only deem him a distinct order of ani- mals , but also put him into a separate class by him- self . His psychical or spiritual ...
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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.