Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different Climates; with Scientific ElucidationsLea and Blanchard, 1849 - 475 páginas |
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... belong to the picture . Moreover , when addressing the feelings and imagination , a firm hand is needed to guard the style from degenerating into an undesirable species of poetic prose . But I need not here describe more fully dangers ...
... belong to the picture . Moreover , when addressing the feelings and imagination , a firm hand is needed to guard the style from degenerating into an undesirable species of poetic prose . But I need not here describe more fully dangers ...
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... belong to the picture . Moreover , when addressing the feelings and imagination , a firm hand is needed to guard the style from degenerating into an undesirable species of poetic prose . But I need not here describe more fully dangers ...
... belong to the picture . Moreover , when addressing the feelings and imagination , a firm hand is needed to guard the style from degenerating into an undesirable species of poetic prose . But I need not here describe more fully dangers ...
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... belong to South America ; but the two first named of all these use- ful animals , i . e . , the Buffalo and the Musk Ox , have retained their natural freedom for two thousand years , and the use of milk and cheese , like the possession ...
... belong to South America ; but the two first named of all these use- ful animals , i . e . , the Buffalo and the Musk Ox , have retained their natural freedom for two thousand years , and the use of milk and cheese , like the possession ...
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... belong originally to the same part of the globe , and whose unrecon- ciled discord appears as ancient as the mythus of Osiris and Ty- phon . ( 4 ) North of the Atlas there dwell nations with long and straight hair , of sallow complexion ...
... belong originally to the same part of the globe , and whose unrecon- ciled discord appears as ancient as the mythus of Osiris and Ty- phon . ( 4 ) North of the Atlas there dwell nations with long and straight hair , of sallow complexion ...
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... belong to the oldest and most imperishable class of historic memorials . But as in the Steppe tigers and crocodiles fight with horses and cattle , so in the forests on its borders , in the wildernesses of Guiana , man is ever armed ...
... belong to the oldest and most imperishable class of historic memorials . But as in the Steppe tigers and crocodiles fight with horses and cattle , so in the forests on its borders , in the wildernesses of Guiana , man is ever armed ...
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