Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind: History of the Asiatic nations. 3d ed. 1844Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1844 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abel-Rémusat abode aboriginal according Affgháns Altaï ancient appear Arabian Arabs Arian Armenian Asia Asiatic Bactria barbarous belong Berber borders Brahmans Buddhists Burnouf celebrated century chain Chaldæans Chazars China Chinese Christian civilised complexion countenance Dekhan derived descended described dialects dynasty East eastern eastward empire Europe European Greek hair Hindoos Hindú Hindústan Hiong-nú hordes Hunns idiom India Indo-Chinese inhabitants inscriptions Iran Kalmuks Khitans Khonds king Kirghis Klaproth Kúrdistan Kúrds Lake Lake Baikal language Mandschú Medes Mohammedan Mongoles Mongolian mountains nations native nearly nomadic northern northward observed origin Ostiaks Ouigours Oxus peculiar Peninsula Persian Petcheneges physical characters principal probably provinces race region reign religion remarkable resemble river Russian Samoiedes Sanskrit says Selenga Siberia southern southward Strabo supposed Syrian Tartar termed Tibet tracts Transoxiana tribes Tschingghis Tschuktschi Tungusian Turkish language Turkish race Turks verb vocabulary western westward words writers Yakútes Yeniseï Zend
Passagens conhecidas
Página 589 - Ce qui distingue surtout les Arabes des peuples du Nouveau-Monde, c'est qu'à travers la rudesse des premiers on sent pourtant quelque chose de délicat dans leurs mœurs : on sent qu'ils sont nés dans cet Orient d'où sont sortis tous les arts, toutes les sciences, toutes les religions. Caché aux extrémités de l'Occident, dans un canton détourné de l'univers, le Canadien habite...
Página 192 - Her hair should be voluminous, like the tail of a peacock ; long, reaching to the knees, and terminating in graceful curls ; her eyebrows should resemble the rain-bow...
Página 236 - the great difference in colour between different natives struck me much. Of the crowd by whom we were surrounded, some were black as Negroes, others merely copper-coloured, and others little darker than the Tunisines whom I have seen at Liverpool.
Página 589 - ... du monde , entre l'Afrique et l'Asie , erre dans les brillantes régions de l'aurore , sur un sol sans arbres et. sans eau. Il faut , parmi les tribus des descendants d'Ismaël, des maîtres , des serviteurs, des animaux domestiques, une liberté soumise à des lois.
Página 589 - Chez les hordes américaines l'homme est encore tout seul avec sa fière et cruelle indépendance : au lieu de la couverture de laine il a la peau d'ours ; au lieu de la lance, la flèche ; au lieu du poignard, la massue : il ne...
Página 600 - Arabs, in the relation of wives and concubines; but, while I could entertain no doubt from my own observation, that the present head of the family was a pure Arab of unmixed blood, I was also assured that both the males and females of the present and former generations were all pure Arabs by descent and marriage, and that a negress had never been known, either as a wife or a slave, in the history of the family.
Página 228 - Vishnu in the form of a boar, indicate the style and mythology of the same indefatigable workmen, who formed the vast excavations of Canarah, the various temples and images of Buddha, and the idols, which are continually dug up at Gaya, or in its vicinity.
Página 274 - ... about the loins, have small feet, and uncommon strength in their arms. They possess in general a truly Roman and martial appearance. The women are not uniformly Circassian beauties, but are for the most part well formed, have a white skin, dark brown or black hair, and regular features.
Página 293 - ... world. There is every reason to believe that swarms of these nations made their way into distant parts of the earth, at periods long before the date of the Scythian invasion of Asia, which is the earliest inroad of the nomadic race that history records. The first, as far as we can conjecture, in respect to the time of their descent, were the Finnish and Ugrian tribes, who appear to have come down from the Altaic border of High Asia towards the northwest, in which direction they advanced to the...
Página 237 - Brahmins are sometimes black, while Pariahs are comparatively fair. It seems, therefore, to be an accidental difference, like that of light and dark complexions in Europe, though where so much of the body is exposed to sight, it becomes more striking here than in our own country.