Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - 576 Seiten |
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... learning , civilization , and the arts originating in the East , were not to be imputed to the orientality or the action of the Sun ; but to the circumstance of man having been first placed there , B there , according to the position of ...
... learning , civilization , and the arts originating in the East , were not to be imputed to the orientality or the action of the Sun ; but to the circumstance of man having been first placed there , B there , according to the position of ...
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... learning of Bards and Druids of elder times , he that shall peruse that work of Tacitus , ' De Moribus Germanorum , ' may easily discern how little civility two thousand years had wrought upon that nation . The like he may observe ...
... learning of Bards and Druids of elder times , he that shall peruse that work of Tacitus , ' De Moribus Germanorum , ' may easily discern how little civility two thousand years had wrought upon that nation . The like he may observe ...
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... learning of the time . The perfection of the human system must depend greatly upon the nature of the food which supports it . Every authority we possess demonstrates , by ana- logy , that animals were eaten by our ancestors ; but that ...
... learning of the time . The perfection of the human system must depend greatly upon the nature of the food which supports it . Every authority we possess demonstrates , by ana- logy , that animals were eaten by our ancestors ; but that ...
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... learning . The consequence and authority of the nobility may be so well imagined , that it is useless to particularize their privileges . To preserve this separation of the different branches of society , their laws for- bade either ...
... learning . The consequence and authority of the nobility may be so well imagined , that it is useless to particularize their privileges . To preserve this separation of the different branches of society , their laws for- bade either ...
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... learning himself pos- sessed , advised the reigning Monarch to promote the study of Letters , which was complied with ; and an edict issued , compelling all freemen holding two hides of land , equal to two plough - lands , or as much as ...
... learning himself pos- sessed , advised the reigning Monarch to promote the study of Letters , which was complied with ; and an edict issued , compelling all freemen holding two hides of land , equal to two plough - lands , or as much as ...
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