Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of ManHenry G. Bohn, 1848 - 396 páginas |
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... South American mules . " When the mules feel themselves in danger , they stop , turn- ing their heads to the right and to the left : the motion of their ears seems to indicate that they reflect on the decision they ought to take . Their ...
... South American mules . " When the mules feel themselves in danger , they stop , turn- ing their heads to the right and to the left : the motion of their ears seems to indicate that they reflect on the decision they ought to take . Their ...
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... South Pole , and round the World , 2 v . 4to . 1777 . Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ; 3 v . 4to . 1785 : with folio Atlas . Both these contain numerous excellent representations of the human subject . Peron Voyage aux Terres ...
... South Pole , and round the World , 2 v . 4to . 1777 . Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ; 3 v . 4to . 1785 : with folio Atlas . Both these contain numerous excellent representations of the human subject . Peron Voyage aux Terres ...
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... South Sea , remarkable for their hairiness ; but they are not completely satisfactory . SPANGBERG relates , that he found such a race in one of the southern Kurile islands ( lat . 43o 50o ) on his return from Japan to Kamtschatka ...
... South Sea , remarkable for their hairiness ; but they are not completely satisfactory . SPANGBERG relates , that he found such a race in one of the southern Kurile islands ( lat . 43o 50o ) on his return from Japan to Kamtschatka ...
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... South Carolina in the shade : || and HUMBOLDT , of 110 ° to 1150 in the Llanos or deserts near the Orinoco in South America.T Thus man can support all possible degrees of atmospherical heat and cold : he has an equal power of supporting ...
... South Carolina in the shade : || and HUMBOLDT , of 110 ° to 1150 in the Llanos or deserts near the Orinoco in South America.T Thus man can support all possible degrees of atmospherical heat and cold : he has an equal power of supporting ...
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... South Wales , are not the best specimens of our iron age , yet they are far beyond these children of nature , in physical and moral attributes . The Greenlanders , the Kurilian and Aleutian islanders , the wandering hordes of Asia , and ...
... South Wales , are not the best specimens of our iron age , yet they are far beyond these children of nature , in physical and moral attributes . The Greenlanders , the Kurilian and Aleutian islanders , the wandering hordes of Asia , and ...
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Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural ... Sir William Lawrence Visualização integral - 1848 |
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Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural ... Sir William Lawrence Visualização de excertos - 1848 |
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African America ancient animals Asia beard beautiful BLUMENBACH body bones brain breed BUFFON Camper Caucasian causes characters climate colour comparative anatomy complete containing cranium Cuvier dark disease distinct distinguished Edition English Engravings equally Europe European exhibit exist external eyes fcap feet figure folio forehead gilt cloth gilt edges Guanches hair head Hottentots human species Ibid illustrated inches incisors Indians individuals inhabitants islands jaws kind latter LINNEUS living mammalia Mongolian Mongols monkey moral morocco Mulatto nations native natural history nearly Negro nose numerous observed offspring orang-outang organization original PALLAS peculiar pelvis physiology Plates Portrait possess post 8vo principles produced proportion quadrupeds race racters remarkable resemblance respect royal 8vo says simiæ skin skull South stature structure Tatars teeth thick tion Travels tribes ulna Van Diemen's Land variety various vertebral column vols Voyage whole zoology
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Página 169 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Página 5 - MEYRICK'S PAINTED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR: A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Charles II.
Página 7 - STRUTT'S DRESSES AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time; with an Historical and Critical Inquiry into every branch of Costume.
Página 12 - Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
Página 14 - Essays : On Decision of Character ; on a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself; on the epithet Romantic ; on the aversion of Men of Taste to Evangelical Religion.
Página 168 - ... in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Página 10 - MANTELL'S GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION ROUND THE ISLE OF WIGHT, and along the adjacent Coast of Dorsetshire.
Página 158 - SPEECH, consisting of names or appellations, and their connexion; whereby men register their thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves.
Página 5 - The author appears to us to have neglected no sources of information, and to have exhausted them, as far as regards the general scope and purpose of the inquiry. The graphical illustrations are such as become a work of tins character upon such a subject ; at, of course, a lavish cost.
Página 354 - Upon the whole, every circumstance concurs in proving that mankind are not composed of species essentially different from each other ; that, on the contrary, there was originally but one species...