American Quarterly Review, Volume 20Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 - Serial publications |
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... remarkable animals , engraved , as we understand , by one of the American missionaries . In their " Shipping List " an American reader will be struck with their mode of writing our difficult names . It is well known , that all the ...
... remarkable animals , engraved , as we understand , by one of the American missionaries . In their " Shipping List " an American reader will be struck with their mode of writing our difficult names . It is well known , that all the ...
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... remarkable features than the quadrupeds ; their varieties , singularity of form , and splendour of plumage , are unrivalled ; and there is among them a vast proportion of suctorial birds , or such as derive their principal support from ...
... remarkable features than the quadrupeds ; their varieties , singularity of form , and splendour of plumage , are unrivalled ; and there is among them a vast proportion of suctorial birds , or such as derive their principal support from ...
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... remarkable , and probably the most ancient peculiarity of the social order in Asia , prevails also to a great extent in the South Sea Islands . In the Friendly Isles , the brahmin or priestly caste takes precedence even of the king ...
... remarkable , and probably the most ancient peculiarity of the social order in Asia , prevails also to a great extent in the South Sea Islands . In the Friendly Isles , the brahmin or priestly caste takes precedence even of the king ...
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... remarkable . The identity of two people , however , is not to be inferred with so much certainty from the mere similarity of customs and usages , as from their languages . Strong resemblances in the former may exist between nations who ...
... remarkable . The identity of two people , however , is not to be inferred with so much certainty from the mere similarity of customs and usages , as from their languages . Strong resemblances in the former may exist between nations who ...
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... remarkable ; they are not , however , yet ascertained to be very numerous ; and no affinity is found between the numerals of the two languages . By this new view of one of the American languages we are again compelled to re - examine ...
... remarkable ; they are not , however , yet ascertained to be very numerous ; and no affinity is found between the numerals of the two languages . By this new view of one of the American languages we are again compelled to re - examine ...
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