Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, Volume 3Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1841 - Anthropology |
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... collected . I have examined the ethnography of various countries in a local order , and it has been only where a whole region appears to have been occupied by one race that I have deviated apparently , though not really , from this ...
... collected . I have examined the ethnography of various countries in a local order , and it has been only where a whole region appears to have been occupied by one race that I have deviated apparently , though not really , from this ...
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... collected from old writers concerning the history of the Old Prussian and Lettish race , and of their mythology .. 449 SECTION 3. Of the Old Prussian , Lithuanian , and Lettish languages SECTION 4. Conclusion CHAPTER IX . 453 460 Of the ...
... collected from old writers concerning the history of the Old Prussian and Lettish race , and of their mythology .. 449 SECTION 3. Of the Old Prussian , Lithuanian , and Lettish languages SECTION 4. Conclusion CHAPTER IX . 453 460 Of the ...
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... collected into nations . Hence may have resulted , in part , those strongly marked varieties which are observed in the physical characters of particular races , secluded during thou- sands of years within narrow limits and subjected to ...
... collected into nations . Hence may have resulted , in part , those strongly marked varieties which are observed in the physical characters of particular races , secluded during thou- sands of years within narrow limits and subjected to ...
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... collected and arranged . Some general remarks on the subject of this inquiry are all that I shall venture to offer , and these , indeed , I shall lay before my readers merely as conjectures and probable generalizations , rather than as ...
... collected and arranged . Some general remarks on the subject of this inquiry are all that I shall venture to offer , and these , indeed , I shall lay before my readers merely as conjectures and probable generalizations , rather than as ...
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... collected by the writers of the Roman empire , the migrations of the Gauls were always from west to east ; the Celtic nations in Germany as well as in Italy and in the East were supposed to have been colonies from Gaul , and the Celtæ ...
... collected by the writers of the Roman empire , the migrations of the Gauls were always from west to east ; the Celtic nations in Germany as well as in Italy and in the East were supposed to have been colonies from Gaul , and the Celtæ ...
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aborigines according affinity Alps ancient writers appears Aquitani Armorica Armorican Asia barbarous Belgæ Belgic belonged Boii Britain Britons Cæsar Celta Celtic Gaul Celtic nations Celtic race Celtic tribes Celts Cimbri Cisalpine coast colonies complexion conjecture Danube derived dialects eastern eastward Erse Etruscans etymon Europe Euskarian evidence fact Finnish Gallic German Greek hair Helvetii Hercynian Forest Herodotus Iberian idiom Indo-European inhabitants inscriptions Ireland Irish island Italy known language Lappes Latin Ligurians likewise Livy mentioned mountains Müller names of places native nearly neighbours Niebuhr northern northward observed occupied Oenotrians opinion origin Oscan Oscan language Ostiaks passage Pelasgi period physical characters Picts Pliny possession principal probably province Ptolemy region relation remarkable resemblance Rhine river Roman Rome Russian Sanskrit Saxons says Scythians Senones Siculi Slavonian southern southward Spain Strabo supposed Tacitus Tectosages termed Teutonic tion towns Turdetani Tuscan Umbrian Welsh words Zeuss
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Page 179 - Uxores habent deni duodenique inter se communes, et maxime fratres cum fratribus parentesque cum liberis ; sed, si qui sunt ex his nati, eorum habentur liberi, quo primum virgo quaeque deducta est.
Page 423 - I allude to their personal freedom and regard for the rights of men ; secondly, to the respect paid by them to the female sex, and the chastity for which the latter were celebrated among the people of the North. These were the foundations of that probity of character, selfrespect, and purity of manners which may be traced among the Germans and Goths even during pagan times, and which, when their sentiments were enlightened by Christianity, brought out those splendid traits of character which distinguish...
Page 25 - This language, preserved in a corner of Europe, by a few thousand mountaineers, is the sole remaining fragment of perhaps a hundred dialects, constructed on the same plan, which probably existed and were universally spoken, at a remote period, in that quarter of the world. Like the bones of the mammoth, and the...
Page 200 - England, in situations which rendered it highly probable that they belonged to ancient Britons. All these partook of one striking characteristic, viz., a remarkable narrowness of the forehead, compared with the occiput, giving a very small space for the anterior lobes of the brain, and allowing room for a large development of the posterior lobes. There are some modern English and Welsh heads to be seen of a similar form, but they are not numerous.
Page 187 - Researches ; III, 182. At page 187 of the same volume, Dr. Prichard also remarks, " Of all Pagan nations the Gauls and Britons appear to have had the most sanguinary rites. They may well be compared in this respect with the Ashauti, Dahomehs, and other nations of Western Africa.
Page 407 - Four thousand six hundred villages were scattered over the provinces of Russia and Poland, and their huts were hastily built of rough timber, in a country deficient both in stone and iron. Erected, or rather concealed in the depth of forests, on the banks of rivers, or the edge of morasses, we may not perhaps, without flattery, compare them to the architecture of the beaver ; which they resembled in a double issue, to the land and water, for the escape of the savage inhabitant, an animal less cleanly,...
Page 11 - They had bards or scalds, vatet, who were supposed, under divine impulse, to celebrate the history of ancient times, and connect them with revelations of the future, and with a refined and metaphysical system of dogmas, which were handed down from age to age, and from one tribe to another, as the primeval creed and possession of the enlightened race. Among them in the West, as well as in the...
Page 193 - ... a catapult. Most of their voices are terrific and threatening, as well when they are quiet as when they are angry. All ages are thought fit for war. They are a nation very fond of wine, and invent many drinks resembling it, and some of the poorer sort •wander about with their senses quite blunted by continual intoxication.
Page 9 - Allophyllian nations appear to have been spread, in the earliest .times, through all the most remote regions of the old continent — to the northward, eastward and westward of the Indo-European tribes, whom they seem everywhere to have preceded ; so that they appear, in comparison with these IndoEuropean colonies, in the light of aboriginal or native inhabitants, vanquished, and often banished into remote and inaccessible tracts by more powerful invading tribes. "* Canon George Rawlinson declares...
Page 192 - The Germans have also varied in their complexion. The ancient Germans are said to have had universally yellow or red hair and blue eyes, — in short, a strongly marked xanthous constitution. This, says Niebuhr, " has now, in most parts of Germany, become uncommon. I can assert, from my own observation, that the Germans are now, in many parts of their country, far from a light-haired race. I have seen a considerable number of persons assembled in a...