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... attempting to ascertain what are the bodily and mental features possessed by the majority of Englishmen , to what sources those features are to be traced , and how far they resemble or differ from the marked features of other nations ...
... attempting to ascertain what are the bodily and mental features possessed by the majority of Englishmen , to what sources those features are to be traced , and how far they resemble or differ from the marked features of other nations ...
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... attempt to sift and knead together the whole of the evidence which has reference to our origin . The historian has generally taken for granted whatever the philologist , or the observer of physical characteristics , has chosen to tell ...
... attempt to sift and knead together the whole of the evidence which has reference to our origin . The historian has generally taken for granted whatever the philologist , or the observer of physical characteristics , has chosen to tell ...
Página vii
... attempts have been made to prove all kinds of ethnological absur- dities from some supposed connexion between the ... attempt to ascertain the affini- ties of the pre - Roman inhabitants of this island . I do not believe that those ...
... attempts have been made to prove all kinds of ethnological absur- dities from some supposed connexion between the ... attempt to ascertain the affini- ties of the pre - Roman inhabitants of this island . I do not believe that those ...
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... attempted to arrive at a positive and definite result , there would still be enough to demonstrate that we ... attempting to classify them , I have been met by this very great difficulty : it is nearly , if not quite , PREFACE . ix.
... attempted to arrive at a positive and definite result , there would still be enough to demonstrate that we ... attempting to classify them , I have been met by this very great difficulty : it is nearly , if not quite , PREFACE . ix.
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... Attempt to discover an ancient Cymric or high Celtic civilisation ✓ with which our modern English civilisation may be compared- Philology points in the direction of Greece - Comparison of words in the Greek and Cymric languages ...
... Attempt to discover an ancient Cymric or high Celtic civilisation ✓ with which our modern English civilisation may be compared- Philology points in the direction of Greece - Comparison of words in the Greek and Cymric languages ...
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