Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World, Volym 2Macmillan, 1862 |
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... already described , there lies on the level prairie , where the Indian pipe - stone quarries are opened , a group of five large granite boulders disposed in a row . The largest of them is about twenty - five feet in diameter , and the ...
... already described , there lies on the level prairie , where the Indian pipe - stone quarries are opened , a group of five large granite boulders disposed in a row . The largest of them is about twenty - five feet in diameter , and the ...
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... already suggested , the practice of smoking originated in the use of the intoxicating fumes for purposes of divination , or other superstitious rites ; and the universality of the Later use of the plant has not entirely divested it of ...
... already suggested , the practice of smoking originated in the use of the intoxicating fumes for purposes of divination , or other superstitious rites ; and the universality of the Later use of the plant has not entirely divested it of ...
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... already suggested . The ivory carving figured here measures four and a half inches long , and is executed with minute delicacy . On the reverse ( Fig . 30 ) a whale is cut with considerable spirit ; and it is curious to find in it the ...
... already suggested . The ivory carving figured here measures four and a half inches long , and is executed with minute delicacy . On the reverse ( Fig . 30 ) a whale is cut with considerable spirit ; and it is curious to find in it the ...
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... already enlisted in the cause , and each committed to him by the medicine - man of the band . Armed with such sacred credentials , he proceeds through the encampments of his nation , attended by a few of his own immediate followers ...
... already enlisted in the cause , and each committed to him by the medicine - man of the band . Armed with such sacred credentials , he proceeds through the encampments of his nation , attended by a few of his own immediate followers ...
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... already so familiar as to admit of his employing it in illustration of the excesses of his day . It is curious , indeed , to note how nearly we can ap- proximate to a precise date for the literary recognition of the " Indian weed ...
... already so familiar as to admit of his employing it in illustration of the excesses of his day . It is curious , indeed , to note how nearly we can ap- proximate to a precise date for the literary recognition of the " Indian weed ...
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Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volym 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1862 |
Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volym 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1862 |
Prehistoric Man: Researches in the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volym 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1862 |
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Sida 420 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime! I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Sida 471 - Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which. they discover the loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know.
Sida 460 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Sida 48 - It was sold then for it's wayte in silver. I have heard some of our old yeomen neighbours say that when they went to Malmesbury or Chippenham market, they culled out their biggest shillings to lay in the scales against the tobacco.
Sida 288 - The nations of America, except those which border the Polar circle, form a single race, characterized by the formation of the skull, the colour of the skin, the extreme thinness of the beard, and the straight glossy hair.
Sida 339 - Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou ; and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee ; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them ; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them...
Sida 68 - Incas is one of the most useful, and at the same time one of the most gigantic works ever executed by man.
Sida 56 - Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who had passed through all the stages incident to the rise and fall of nations ; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown.
Sida 152 - Great Captain, you have killed Philip, and conquered his country ; for I believe that I and my company are the last that war against the English, so suppose the war is ended by your means ; and therefore these things belong unto you.
Sida 205 - I at first found it difficult to conceive that the original rounded skull of the Indian could be changed into this fantastic form; and was led to suppose that the latter was an artificial elongation of a head remarkable for its length and narrowness. I even supposed that the long-headed Peruvians were a more ancient people than the Inca tribes, and distinguished from them by their cranial configuration. In this opinion I was mistaken. Abundant means of observation and comparison have since convinced...