Essays and Dialogues of Giacomo LeopardiTrübner, 1882 - 216 pages |
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... INDIA . VOL . VI . ] Vol . II . , post 8vo , pp . 408 , cloth , price 10s . 6d . AN ACCOUNT OF THE POLYNESIAN RACE : ITS ORIGIN AND MIGRATIONS , AND THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE TO THE TIMES OF KAMEHAMEHA I. By ABRAHAM ...
... INDIA . VOL . VI . ] Vol . II . , post 8vo , pp . 408 , cloth , price 10s . 6d . AN ACCOUNT OF THE POLYNESIAN RACE : ITS ORIGIN AND MIGRATIONS , AND THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE TO THE TIMES OF KAMEHAMEHA I. By ABRAHAM ...
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... India and Ethiopia do not exceed the age of forty years . They who die at this age are considered very old . Their children marry at seven years of age : and this state- ment is verified by the custom in Guinea , the Deccan , and ...
... India and Ethiopia do not exceed the age of forty years . They who die at this age are considered very old . Their children marry at seven years of age : and this state- ment is verified by the custom in Guinea , the Deccan , and ...
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... India , and other countries , who are said to have lived thousands of years . So that , far from being desirous of immortality , I am content to leave it to fishes , which are by Leeuwenhoek believed to be immortal , provided they are ...
... India , and other countries , who are said to have lived thousands of years . So that , far from being desirous of immortality , I am content to leave it to fishes , which are by Leeuwenhoek believed to be immortal , provided they are ...
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... Compare ourselves , for instance , with the inhabitants of India or Ethiopia , who are said to have retained their primitive manners and wild habits . You would scarcely think that these people PLOTINUS AND PORPHYRIUS . 189.
... Compare ourselves , for instance , with the inhabitants of India or Ethiopia , who are said to have retained their primitive manners and wild habits . You would scarcely think that these people PLOTINUS AND PORPHYRIUS . 189.
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... India , and Founder of Buddhism ( as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist ) . Third Edition . By Edwin Arnold , M.A. , C.S.I. , & c . Cr . 8vo , pp . xiii . and 238 , cloth . 1880. 7s . 6d . Popular Issue . Seventh Edition . Limp ...
... India , and Founder of Buddhism ( as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist ) . Third Edition . By Edwin Arnold , M.A. , C.S.I. , & c . Cr . 8vo , pp . xiii . and 238 , cloth . 1880. 7s . 6d . Popular Issue . Seventh Edition . Limp ...
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