American Quarterly Review, Volume 20Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 - Serial publications |
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... persons , there- fore , who take sufficient interest in the subject to induce them to obtain accurate views , and to accompany us in our hasty sur- vey of it , will do well to have before them a good map , or , what is still better , a ...
... persons , there- fore , who take sufficient interest in the subject to induce them to obtain accurate views , and to accompany us in our hasty sur- vey of it , will do well to have before them a good map , or , what is still better , a ...
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... persons who read voyages and travels for the sake of acquiring knowledge , and not merely to beguile an idle hour , that they will look in vain in the American reprint of Beechey's Voyage , for this and many other import- ant facts ...
... persons who read voyages and travels for the sake of acquiring knowledge , and not merely to beguile an idle hour , that they will look in vain in the American reprint of Beechey's Voyage , for this and many other import- ant facts ...
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... persons , they are said to be smaller than the first , or yellow race , and are con- sidered , on the whole , as among the most puny and ill - favoured of the human species.3 To these two principal races , some writers add a third ...
... persons , they are said to be smaller than the first , or yellow race , and are con- sidered , on the whole , as among the most puny and ill - favoured of the human species.3 To these two principal races , some writers add a third ...
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... persons - particu- larly Mr. Ellis , whose " Polynesian Researches " are well known to every reader - proceed one step farther , and confidently pro- nounce the Indians of America to have originated from Asia , through these islanders ...
... persons - particu- larly Mr. Ellis , whose " Polynesian Researches " are well known to every reader - proceed one step farther , and confidently pro- nounce the Indians of America to have originated from Asia , through these islanders ...
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... person , place , or thing is taboo'd , they cannot be touched , and in some cases , even under the penalty of death . The taboo seasons are either common or strict . During a common taboo , the men were only required to abstain from ...
... person , place , or thing is taboo'd , they cannot be touched , and in some cases , even under the penalty of death . The taboo seasons are either common or strict . During a common taboo , the men were only required to abstain from ...
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