American Quarterly Review, Issues 39-40Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 - Serial publications |
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... character of the Oceanic region farther than to observe , very briefly , that it contains objects of the highest interest , among which may be reckoned a greater number of volcanoes than are known in any other part of the world . The ...
... character of the Oceanic region farther than to observe , very briefly , that it contains objects of the highest interest , among which may be reckoned a greater number of volcanoes than are known in any other part of the world . The ...
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... character , though they are not identified with , the African negroes , having skins of a sooty colour , wool - like hair , flat noses , and thick lips . These inhabit not only New Holland or Australia , and the group of New Guinea ...
... character , though they are not identified with , the African negroes , having skins of a sooty colour , wool - like hair , flat noses , and thick lips . These inhabit not only New Holland or Australia , and the group of New Guinea ...
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... character , strongly resemble the Malays , and have the same cast of countenance . 6. Various Asiatic customs are found among them ; as the custom of not allowing women to eat with their husbands , nor to partake of the food reserved ...
... character , strongly resemble the Malays , and have the same cast of countenance . 6. Various Asiatic customs are found among them ; as the custom of not allowing women to eat with their husbands , nor to partake of the food reserved ...
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... character ; and if this were indisputably the case , it would prove an insuperable objection to their having an affinity to the Chinese or other monosyllabic languages of Asia . But this general proposition , it seems , is now to be ...
... character ; and if this were indisputably the case , it would prove an insuperable objection to their having an affinity to the Chinese or other monosyllabic languages of Asia . But this general proposition , it seems , is now to be ...
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... character . The principal characteristic of the mystical allegory is , that the imagery is all taken from several objects and their opposites , and must be conformable to literal truth ; whereas , in the first kind above mentioned , the ...
... character . The principal characteristic of the mystical allegory is , that the imagery is all taken from several objects and their opposites , and must be conformable to literal truth ; whereas , in the first kind above mentioned , the ...
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