Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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Page viii
... English mind , not readily swayed by rhetoric , moves freely under the pressure of facts . September , 1873 . E. B. T. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . IN this edition , while I have not found it needful to alter the general argument ...
... English mind , not readily swayed by rhetoric , moves freely under the pressure of facts . September , 1873 . E. B. T. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION . IN this edition , while I have not found it needful to alter the general argument ...
Page 7
... 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 ...
Page 18
... 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 ...
Page 28
... English- man , admitting that he does not climb trees like the wild Australian , nor track game like the savage of the Brazilian forest , nor compete with the ancient Etruscan and the modern Chinese in delicacy of goldsmith's work and ...
... English- man , admitting that he does not climb trees like the wild Australian , nor track game like the savage of the Brazilian forest , nor compete with the ancient Etruscan and the modern Chinese in delicacy of goldsmith's work and ...
Page 44
... among the wild Irish , about 1550 , in Andrew Boorde , ' Introduction of Knowledge , ' ed . by F. J. Furnivall , Early English Text Soc . 1870 . " district remarkable for a barbaric simplicity of life is 44 THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE .
... among the wild Irish , about 1550 , in Andrew Boorde , ' Introduction of Knowledge , ' ed . by F. J. Furnivall , Early English Text Soc . 1870 . " district remarkable for a barbaric simplicity of life is 44 THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE .
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