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Page 15
... and their subjects so striking , that Bougainville and some others have
supposed they were a distinct race , the descendants of a superior people , who
at a remote period had conquered the aborigines , and perpetuated their
supremacy . ' .
... and their subjects so striking , that Bougainville and some others have
supposed they were a distinct race , the descendants of a superior people , who
at a remote period had conquered the aborigines , and perpetuated their
supremacy . ' .
Page 18
... with the chunam and a leaf , as practised in the East Indies ; and this island is
twenty degrees eastward of the Pelew Islands , which are commonly supposed to
be the most distant country from Asia , to which this custom could be traced . ” 7.
... with the chunam and a leaf , as practised in the East Indies ; and this island is
twenty degrees eastward of the Pelew Islands , which are commonly supposed to
be the most distant country from Asia , to which this custom could be traced . ” 7.
Page 21
At this stage of the enquiry , the very circumstance which has just been adduced
to prove the connection between the Islanders and the Asiatics , that is , the
supposed monosyllabic character of the languages of both of them , becomes
one of ...
At this stage of the enquiry , the very circumstance which has just been adduced
to prove the connection between the Islanders and the Asiatics , that is , the
supposed monosyllabic character of the languages of both of them , becomes
one of ...
Page 32
... the bases of the most important conclusions — so , in expounding scripture ,
the usual laws of language and the ordinary meaning of words were set at
nought , and new laws and new significations invented , to meet the supposed
exigency ...
... the bases of the most important conclusions — so , in expounding scripture ,
the usual laws of language and the ordinary meaning of words were set at
nought , and new laws and new significations invented , to meet the supposed
exigency ...
Page 33
... a third has spent his strength in vindicating the supposed classical purity of the
style of his author ; another , in framing analogies between the natural and
spiritual , showing that the literal meaning of all scripture has a hidden
counterpart in ...
... a third has spent his strength in vindicating the supposed classical purity of the
style of his author ; another , in framing analogies between the natural and
spiritual , showing that the literal meaning of all scripture has a hidden
counterpart in ...
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| Title | American Quarterly Review, Volume 20 Volumes 298-301 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 Library of American civilization |
| Editor | Robert Walsh |
| Publisher | Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2019 |
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