Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... , mais de regarder ce qu'il fait . ' -DE BROSSES SECOND AMERICAN , FROM THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1877 AUTHOR'S EDITION . GN400 T95 1877 vil PREFACE TO THE PRIMITIVE CULTURE.
... , mais de regarder ce qu'il fait . ' -DE BROSSES SECOND AMERICAN , FROM THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1877 AUTHOR'S EDITION . GN400 T95 1877 vil PREFACE TO THE PRIMITIVE CULTURE.
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... justified the belief that the English mind , not readily swayed by rhetoric , moves freely under the pressure of facts . September , 1873 . E. B. T. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . CHAPTER I. THE SCIENCE viii PREFACE .
... justified the belief that the English mind , not readily swayed by rhetoric , moves freely under the pressure of facts . September , 1873 . E. B. T. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . CHAPTER I. THE SCIENCE viii PREFACE .
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... English ploughman and a negro of Central Africa . These pages will be so crowded with evidence of such correspondence among man- kind , that there is no need to dwell upon its details here , but it may be used at once to override a ...
... English ploughman and a negro of Central Africa . These pages will be so crowded with evidence of such correspondence among man- kind , that there is no need to dwell upon its details here , but it may be used at once to override a ...
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... English clergyman's bands no longer so convey their history to the eye , and look unaccountable enough till one has seen the intermediate stages through which they came down from the more serviceable wide collars , such as Milton wears ...
... English clergyman's bands no longer so convey their history to the eye , and look unaccountable enough till one has seen the intermediate stages through which they came down from the more serviceable wide collars , such as Milton wears ...
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... English law , only recently repealed , which prohibited sons of the same father by different mothers from succeeding to one another's land . To Sir H. S. Maine , knowing the facts of the case , it was easy to explain its real origin ...
... English law , only recently repealed , which prohibited sons of the same father by different mothers from succeeding to one another's land . To Sir H. S. Maine , knowing the facts of the case , it was easy to explain its real origin ...
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