Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development OfcivilizationJ. Murray, 1870 - 386 עמודים |
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Abipones Africa ancient animals appears Asia Australia belong boiling bones Borneo called celts Charlevoix child Chinese civilization connexion Cook cord couvade curious custom Dayaks dead deaf-and-dumb deaf-mute distant districts earth Egyptian hieroglyphics Esquimaux Europe evidence express father fingers fire fire-drill fish flint fore-finger gesture-language gestures give Grimm ground hand heaven Humboldt idea Indians instruments iron Islands Jacob Grimm Klemm knives known language Laura Bridgman London lower races Madagascar mankind Max Müller means mentioned Mexican mind modern mythology myths native natural needfire nexion North object origin perhaps picture-writing Plin Polynesian practice quipus remarkable rude savage Schoolcraft seems signs similar South America speak Stone Age stone implements stone-boiling story Strabo Tahiti tell things thought tion tortoise tradition tribes utterance vessels William Wigg words writing Zealand
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עמוד 168 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
עמוד 217 - And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
עמוד 363 - He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no ; That would, as soon as e'er she shone, straight Whether 'twere day or night demonstrate; Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is, And prove that she's not made of green cheese...
עמוד 355 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
עמוד 217 - And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
עמוד 351 - ... taste of them, that the whole nation resolved to leave their dull residence for the charms of the upper region. Men, women, and children ascended by means of the vine ; but when about half the nation had reached the surface of the earth, a corpulent woman, who was clambering up the vine, broke it with her weight, and closed upon herself and the rest of the nation the light of the sun.
עמוד 6 - ... have first given rise to the notion of spirits ; for savages do not readily distinguish between subjective and objective impressions. When a savage dreams, the figures which appear before him are believed to have come from a distance and to stand over him ; or ' the soul of the dreamer goes out on its travels, and comes home with a remembrance of what it has seen.
עמוד 151 - Words are the Counters of wise men, and the Money of fools...
עמוד 142 - America would nudge their neighbour to answer for them when any one among them was asked his name ; and the natives of the Fiji Islands would get any third party who might be present to answer as to their names.3 An Indian asked Dr.
עמוד 345 - The boy was a perfect pigmy, and never grew beyond the stature of a small infant ; but the girl increased with her years, so that the labor of providing food and lodging devolved wholly on her. She went out daily to get wood for their lodge-fire, and took her little brother...