A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs, and Pursuits, of Every NationE. Hopkins and W. Reed, 1826 - 452 sidor |
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... Spaniard more lofty , no Englishman more daring , than some among the Hollanders . The manners of the people are blunt , and their answers short ; yet there is civility and good sense in their actions . The peasants of Westpha- lia ...
... Spaniard more lofty , no Englishman more daring , than some among the Hollanders . The manners of the people are blunt , and their answers short ; yet there is civility and good sense in their actions . The peasants of Westpha- lia ...
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... Spaniards are dis- tinguished . Their pride and patriotic sentiments only extend to the part of Germany in which they were born ; to the rest of their coun- trymen they are as strange as to any foreigners . * There is one thing in the ...
... Spaniards are dis- tinguished . Their pride and patriotic sentiments only extend to the part of Germany in which they were born ; to the rest of their coun- trymen they are as strange as to any foreigners . * There is one thing in the ...
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... Spaniards , replied , " What care I whether dog eat the hog , or hog eat the dog , so that the interests of my sovereign prosper ? " The peasant , no less than the sultan , displays all kinds of contemp for infidels , as Christians are ...
... Spaniards , replied , " What care I whether dog eat the hog , or hog eat the dog , so that the interests of my sovereign prosper ? " The peasant , no less than the sultan , displays all kinds of contemp for infidels , as Christians are ...
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... Spaniards ; their dispositions are gener- ally considered as equally remote from the volatility of the former , and from the affected gravity of the latter . By some travellers they are characterized as a grateful , obliging people ...
... Spaniards ; their dispositions are gener- ally considered as equally remote from the volatility of the former , and from the affected gravity of the latter . By some travellers they are characterized as a grateful , obliging people ...
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... Spaniards . THE Spaniards are , for the most part , moderately tall and thin , their features are regular , their hair and eyes are of a dark colour . The men shave their beards , but leave mustachios on the upper lip . The women are ...
... Spaniards . THE Spaniards are , for the most part , moderately tall and thin , their features are regular , their hair and eyes are of a dark colour . The men shave their beards , but leave mustachios on the upper lip . The women are ...
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Sida 4 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Sida 4 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Sida 201 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Sida 171 - Hence the English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national character, unless this very singularity may pass for such.
Sida 205 - AND it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Sida 312 - Europeans so frequently confounded ; the latter have been stationary at least as long as we have known them, while the slightest impulse seems sufficient to give a determination to the Japanese character, which would progressively improve until it attained the same height of civilization with the European.
Sida 321 - Antshar is one of the largest trees in the forests of Java. The stem is cylindrical, perpendicular, and rises completely naked to the height of sixty, seventy or eighty feet. Near the surface of the ground it spreads obliquely...
Sida 353 - Banderilla, the nutritive fruit of the banana tree comes no longer to maturity. In this foggy and cold region, therefore, want spurs on the Indian to labour and excites his industry. At the height of San Miguel pines begin to mingle with the oaks, which...
Sida 206 - Gentiles : and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword ; and there was not a man left.
Sida 348 - Of these, what may be considered as the Darcotas are the Mindawarcarton, or Minowakanton, known to the French by the name of the Gens du Lac, or People of the Lake.