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... passed by modification into the percussion - lock , which is just now changing its old - fashioned arrangement to be adapted from muzzle - loading to breech - loading . The mediæval astrolabe passed into the quadrant , now discarded in ...
... passed by modification into the percussion - lock , which is just now changing its old - fashioned arrangement to be adapted from muzzle - loading to breech - loading . The mediæval astrolabe passed into the quadrant , now discarded in ...
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... passed into another , illustrate with much force and clearness the nature of the change and growth , revival and decay , which go on from year to year in more important matters of life . In books , again , we see each writer not for and ...
... passed into another , illustrate with much force and clearness the nature of the change and growth , revival and decay , which go on from year to year in more important matters of life . In books , again , we see each writer not for and ...
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... passed into separate property , while the pasturage in the fallows and stubbles and on the waste belonged to the householders in common . Since those days , the change from communal to individual ownership has mostly transformed this ...
... passed into separate property , while the pasturage in the fallows and stubbles and on the waste belonged to the householders in common . Since those days , the change from communal to individual ownership has mostly transformed this ...
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... passed by advancing neighbours , that some- times even societies of men should recede into rudeness and misery - all these are phenomena with which modern history is familiar . In judging of the relation of the lower to the higher ...
... passed by advancing neighbours , that some- times even societies of men should recede into rudeness and misery - all these are phenomena with which modern history is familiar . In judging of the relation of the lower to the higher ...
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... passed against the inveterate habits of fastening ploughs to the horses ' tails , and of burning oats from the straw to save the trouble of threshing . In the 18th century Ireland could still be thus described in satire : - ' The ...
... passed against the inveterate habits of fastening ploughs to the horses ' tails , and of burning oats from the straw to save the trouble of threshing . In the 18th century Ireland could still be thus described in satire : - ' The ...
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Abipones Africa ages Amazulu ancient animals animistic appears Archæology Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Charlevoix Chinook Jargon civilization connexion creatures culture custom Dayaks dead death described divination doctrine dreams early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral ghost Greek Grimm hand heaven Hine-nui-te-po Hist human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands Journ Karens Khonds language legend living lower races Malay man's mankind Maui Max Müller meaning mediæval Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin primitive Quichua quinary relation religion remarkable rite rude Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sneeze soul sound spirit stone story survival theory things thought tion Tonga traced Veddas verb vigesimal vowels Waitz words Wuttke Yoruba Zealand Zulu