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" The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic... "
The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts - Page 220
edited by - 1916 - 471 pages
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Northern Europe (Denmark, Sweden, Russia), Local, Social, and Political, in ...

William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - Europe, Northern - 1862 - 416 pages
...Charles Lamb, makes short work of the classification of the human species by simply dividing it into two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend ; — and to these two original diversities he thinks may be reduced " all those impertinent classifications...
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Common School Grammar: With Models of Clausal, Phrasal, and Verbal Analysis ...

David Bates Tower - English language - 1865 - 256 pages
...Two representatives were present, one from the nobles, the other from the commons. The human species is composed of two distinct races, — the men who borrow, and the men who lend. NOTE. The added term, whether distributive or modified by a distributive, is in apposition with a plural...
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Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters

Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...Missionaries—and both my good friends still—close the catalogue of Qreciani in my time. THE TWO RACES OF MEN. THE human species, according to the best theory I...men. All the dwellers upon earth, "Parthians, and Medea, and Elamites," flock hither, and do naturally fall in with one or other of these primary distinctions....
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Analytical Sixth Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General ...

Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...piece of irony. Let the pupil point out the true state of things at different points in the story. 1. The human species, according to the best theory I...borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diver, sities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white...
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English Literature of Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. THE TWO RACES OF MEN. The human species, according to the best theory I...Parthians and Medes and Elamites" — flock hither and 1 Letter to Coleridge. » Alluding to tho famous Bodleian Library at Oxford, founded by Sir Thoma«...
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The Past, the Present, and the Future

Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1869 - 484 pages
...of Athens, we can see a gradual increase in the numbers of the great race, until the whole • * " The human species, according to the best theory I...distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. The infinite superiority of the former, which I choose to designate as the great ran, is discernible...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 232

Books and bookselling - 1872 - 772 pages
...master-races ; and these he denominates "The Borrowers and the Lenders?" "The human species (he says), according to the best theory I can form of it, is...of two distinct races ; the men who borrow, and the mea who lend. To these original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Part 1

English periodicals - 1872 - 774 pages
...form of it, is composed of two distinct races ; the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent...of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, and red men. All the dwellers upon earth, ' Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites,' flock hither, and...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 232

Early English newspapers - 1872 - 776 pages
...Lenders ?" " The human species (he says), according to the best theory I can form of it, iscomposed of two distinct races ; the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes,...
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Analytical Fourth [-sixth] Reader: Containing Practical Directions for ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...piece of irony. Let the pupil point out the true state of things at different points in the story. 1 The human species, according to the best theory I...borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diver sities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white...
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