 ... 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...  Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind - Page 193by James Cowles Prichard - 1841Full view - About this book
 | James Cowles Prichard - Anthropology - 1845 - 748 pages
...armed with the same vigour of heart as the man in his prime, with limbs, hardened by cold and continued labour, and a contempt of many even real dangers....their senses quite blunted by continued intoxication." The Germans are noted for large broad heads. They were universally celebrated for red hair and blue... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 552 pages
...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...sort wander about with their senses quite blunted by continual intoxication." Now we find that each race, beside its special moral qualities, seems also... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 544 pages
...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 vander abov o with their senses quite blunted by continual vication." we find that each race, beside... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1872 - 554 pages
...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...•wander about with their senses quite blunted by continual intoxication." Now we find that each race, beside its special moral qualities, seems also... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Biogeography - 1888 - 970 pages
...their voices are terrific and threatening, as well when they are quiet as when they are angry. . . . They are, as a nation, very fond of wine, and invent...their senses quite blunted by continued intoxication." THE TEUTONS. But while Christianity was redeeming the Gauls, more powerful invading enemies were attacking... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Religions - 1888 - 570 pages
...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...sort wander about with their senses quite blunted by continual intoxication." Now we find that each race, beside its special moral qualities, seems also... | |
 | Charles Woodward Hutson - Civilization - 1891 - 254 pages
...of many even real dangers. None of them are known, like those who in Italy arc called in joke Marki, to cut off their thumbs through fear of serving in war. " They are, as a nation, very fond of wine, 1cp BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION. and invent many drinks resembling it [he means cider, beer, metheglin,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - World history - 1897 - 386 pages
...the same vigor of heart as the man in his prime, with limbs, hardened by cold and continual labor, and a contempt of many even real dangers. None of...the poorer sort wander about with their senses quite blurred by continued intoxication." Such was the original stock. By processes of ethnic differentiation... | |
 | American essays - 1869 - 806 pages
...threatening, as well when they arc 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...•wander about with their senses quite blunted by continual intoxication." Now we find that each race, beside its special moral qualities, seems also... | |
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