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... which every living creature par- ticipated ; on the affability of his converfation and manners , or his modeft unaffuming deportment : nor need I remark , that he was totally totally free from pedantry , as well as from arrogance [ xiv ]
... which every living creature par- ticipated ; on the affability of his converfation and manners , or his modeft unaffuming deportment : nor need I remark , that he was totally totally free from pedantry , as well as from arrogance [ xiv ]
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... manners , cuftoms , and lan- guages , as well as in the features and complexions , of men . I could not help remarking , how important and extensive a field was yet un- explored , and how many folid advantages unimproved ; and when I ...
... manners , cuftoms , and lan- guages , as well as in the features and complexions , of men . I could not help remarking , how important and extensive a field was yet un- explored , and how many folid advantages unimproved ; and when I ...
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... discussed before you , concerning the history , laws , manners , arts , and antiquities of Afia , I am unable to decide whether my pleasure or my furprise be the greater ; VOL . I. E greater ; for I will not diffemble , that your 1785.
... discussed before you , concerning the history , laws , manners , arts , and antiquities of Afia , I am unable to decide whether my pleasure or my furprise be the greater ; VOL . I. E greater ; for I will not diffemble , that your 1785.
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... manners , obferves , in his elegant preliminary Differ- tation , that this " country has been inhabited from the earliest an- 66 tiquity by a people , who have no refemblance , either in their figure " or manners , with any of the ...
... manners , obferves , in his elegant preliminary Differ- tation , that this " country has been inhabited from the earliest an- 66 tiquity by a people , who have no refemblance , either in their figure " or manners , with any of the ...
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... manner of connecting the vowels with the confonants . These remarks may favour an opinion entertained by many , that all the fymbols of found , which at first , probably , were only rude outlines of the different organs of speech , had ...
... manner of connecting the vowels with the confonants . These remarks may favour an opinion entertained by many , that all the fymbols of found , which at first , probably , were only rude outlines of the different organs of speech , had ...
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