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Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta ... - Page 68
by Reginald Heber - 1828
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The American Quarterly Review, Volume 4

1828 - 732 pages
...approximation, and which undoubtedly do not appear to follow so naturally from the climate, as that swarthincss of complexion which is the sole distinction between...easy to fix any limits to their power. I am inclined alter all, to suspect that our European vanity leads us astray in supposing that our own is the primitive...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...climate may produce other and additional changes, and when such peculiarities have three or four thousand years to operate in, it is not easy to fix any limits...which I should rather suppose was that of the Indian, half way between the two extremes, and perhaps the most agreeable to the eye and instinct of the majority...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 37, Issue 73

1828 - 598 pages
...climate may produce other and additional changes, and when such peculiarities have three or four thousand years to operate in, it is not easy to fix any limits...which I should rather suppose was that of the Indian, half way between the two extremes, and perhaps the most agreeable to the eye and instinct of the majority...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 10

1828 - 614 pages
...climate may produce other and additional changes, and when such peculiarities have three or four thousand years to operate in, it is not easy to fix any limits...our own is the primitive complexion, which I should rallier suppose was that of the Indian, half-way between the two extremes, and perhaps the most agreeable...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...when such peculiarities have three or four thousand years to operate in, it is not easy to fix anv limits to their power. I am inclined, after all, to...which I should rather suppose was that of the Indian, half way between the two extremes, and perhaps the most agreeable to the eye and instinct of the majority...
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Southern Review, Volume 2

1828 - 640 pages
...climate may produce other and additional changes, and when such peculiarities have three or four thousand years to operate in, it is not easy to fix any limits...suspect that our European vanity leads us astray in stippatfing that our own is the primitive complexion, itbich I should rather suppose was that of the...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 4

Robert Walsh - 1828 - 564 pages
...easy to fix any limits to their powef. I am inclined after all, to suspect that our European vauity leads us astray in supposing that our own is the primitive complexion, winch 1 should rather suppose w»s that of the Indian, half way between the two extremes, and perhaps...
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Some Account of the Life of Reginald Heber

Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 pages
...climate may produce other and additional changes, and when such peculiarities have three or four thousand years to operate in, it is not easy to fix any limits...which I should rather suppose was that of the Indian, half way between the two extremes, and perhaps the most agreeable to the eye and instinct of the majority...
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The Extractor; or Universal repertorium of literature, science ..., Volume 1

1829 - 762 pages
...climate may produce other and additional changes, and when such peculiarities have three or four thousand years to operate in, it is not easy to fix any limits...which I should rather suppose was that of the Indian, half way between the two extremes, and perhaps the most agreeable to the eye and instinct of the majority...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 99, Part 2; Volume 146

1829 - 738 pages
...climate may produce other and additional changes, and when such peculiarities have three or four thousand years to operate in, it is not easy to fix any limits...power. I am inclined after all to suspect that our niaviuuidvciy umi luinivuiuieiy uu uur leel- T-» i ings adapt themselves to a total change of f-ur°Pean...
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