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Pagina 111 - History of Hindostan ;" its Arts and its Sciences, as connected with the history of the other great empires of Asia, during the most ancient periods of the world; with numerous illustrative Engravings,
Pagina 24 - The following marks and descriptions will serve to define these five varieties. But it is necessary to observe, in the first place, that on account of the multifarious diversity and gradation of characters, one or two are not sufficient for determining the race, consequently, that an enumeration of several is required ; and, secondly, that even this combination of characters is subject to numerous exceptions in each variety. The migrations of the...
Pagina 59 - As the physical capabilities of his frame enable man to occupy every variety of climate, soil, and situation, it follows of necessity, that he must be omnivorous, that is, capable of deriving sufficient nourishment and support from all kinds of food. The power of living in various situations would be rendered nugatory by restriction to one kind of diet. If it was the design of nature, that the dreary wastes of Lapland, the naked and barren shores of the Icy Sea, the ice-bound coasts of Greenland...
Pagina 65 - By examination of the bony head we learn that the Guanches also, or the race which occupied the Canary Islands at the time of their first discovery by the Europeans in the fourteenth century, belonged to the Caucasian variety. The name Guanches signifies men or sons in their language. The Spaniards, who conquered them, represent them as a people of strength and courage, of powerful bodies and intelligent minds, advanced in social institutions, and of pure morals. They made the bravest resistance...
Pagina 111 - Engravings," 4to. In this volume Mr Maurice discusses the curious and important topics of Indian Cosmogony ; the four Yugs, or grand astronomical periods; the longevity of the primitive race, &c. The second volume of this work followed in 1798 ; and the third and final Part in 1799.
Pagina 162 - Each day must a Brahmen student receive his food by begging, with due care, from the houses of persons renowned for discharging their duties, and not deficient in performing the sacrifices which the Veda ordains.
Pagina 99 - le gouvernement est attentif à aplanir et à semer de récom« penses le chemin qui conduit aux connaissances qu'il veut « étendre ou conserver, autant il laisse croître d'épines dans « ceux qui mènent vers celles qu'il dédaigne ou qu'il rejette. « Notre ministère n'a d'autre cri que le bien public : il ne veut « que les gens de lettres dont il a besoin pour la chose pu.• blique, et les plus beaux génies n'attirent ses regards qu'au« tant qu'ils se rendent utiles.
Pagina 65 - ... their language. The Spaniards, who conquered them, represent them as a people of strength and courage, of powerful bodies and intelligent minds, advanced in social institutions, and of pure morals. They made the bravest resistance to their European invaders, who did not completely subject them until after a hundred and fifty years of repeated contests. They had a tradition of their descent from an ancient, great, and powerful people. We now know them, as we do the Egyptians, only by their mummies,-f-...
Pagina 13 - Les terrains meubles qui remplissent les fonds des vallées et qui couvrent la superficie des grandes plaines nous ont donc fourni , dans les seuls ordres des pachydermes et des éléphans, les ossemens d'onze espèces, savoir : un rhinocéros, d iux hippopotames , deux tapirs , un éléphant et cinq mastodontes.
Pagina 59 - Eskimaux, the Samoiedes, the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, &c. &c. as the most careful admixture of vegetable and animal matters is to us. We even find that the Russians, who winter on Nova...