Sketches of the History of Man: In Four Volumes, 1. köideW. Strahan, and T. Cadell, and W. Creech, 1778 |
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... Gold coaft , are indeed brave and intrepid . When kind- ly treated in the Weft Indies , they make excel- lent fervants . The negroes of Senegal are remark- able in the Weft Indies for fidelity and good un- derstanding . The The ...
... Gold coaft , are indeed brave and intrepid . When kind- ly treated in the Weft Indies , they make excel- lent fervants . The negroes of Senegal are remark- able in the Weft Indies for fidelity and good un- derstanding . The The ...
Page 65
... Gold coaft are naturally gay they apprehend readily what is faid to them , have a good judgement , are e- quitable in their dealings , and accommo- date themselves readily to the manners of ftrangers . And yet , after all , there feems ...
... Gold coaft are naturally gay they apprehend readily what is faid to them , have a good judgement , are e- quitable in their dealings , and accommo- date themselves readily to the manners of ftrangers . And yet , after all , there feems ...
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... gold .. + M. Buffon difcourfing of America , " Is it not fingular , " fays he , that in a world compofed " almoft wholly of favages , there never fhould have been any fociety or commerce between them and " the animals about them ? There ...
... gold .. + M. Buffon difcourfing of America , " Is it not fingular , " fays he , that in a world compofed " almoft wholly of favages , there never fhould have been any fociety or commerce between them and " the animals about them ? There ...
Page 124
... gold and wives of the Indians ; and in general treated them with great cruelty . Such enormities did not long pafs unrefented : the rapacious Spaniards , after much bloodfhed , were shut up in # 0000 bev Luder sat their fort , and ...
... gold and wives of the Indians ; and in general treated them with great cruelty . Such enormities did not long pafs unrefented : the rapacious Spaniards , after much bloodfhed , were shut up in # 0000 bev Luder sat their fort , and ...
Page 128
... Gold and filver are metals that poffess these properties in an eminent degree . They are at the fame time perfectly homogene- ous in whatever country produced : twa maffes of pure gold or of pure filver are always I う always equal in ...
... Gold and filver are metals that poffess these properties in an eminent degree . They are at the fame time perfectly homogene- ous in whatever country produced : twa maffes of pure gold or of pure filver are always I う always equal in ...
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