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... land and sea constantly alternating their dominion , so it may be with civili- sation , destined to no permanent home on the earth , but subsiding here to reappear there , and varying its level as it varies its latitude . As the ...
... land and sea constantly alternating their dominion , so it may be with civili- sation , destined to no permanent home on the earth , but subsiding here to reappear there , and varying its level as it varies its latitude . As the ...
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... land - level , or in fancies about the skies - Absence in most of them of any connection with human crime - Vivid belief in futurity among the lower races- -Gradual growth of the idea of the future life as affected by the present one ...
... land - level , or in fancies about the skies - Absence in most of them of any connection with human crime - Vivid belief in futurity among the lower races- -Gradual growth of the idea of the future life as affected by the present one ...
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... land and dwelling apart . The younger brother was steady and industrious , and made many discoveries ; but the elder was idle and slept away his time , and envied the works of his brother , till at last his envy grew so strong that one ...
... land and dwelling apart . The younger brother was steady and industrious , and made many discoveries ; but the elder was idle and slept away his time , and envied the works of his brother , till at last his envy grew so strong that one ...
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... land with forests . This imprudent criticism caused her bro- ther to be slain by the angry god , and all men after him to be subject to death . A similar idea is con- tained in one of the Tongan traditions of creation ; for when the ...
... land with forests . This imprudent criticism caused her bro- ther to be slain by the angry god , and all men after him to be subject to death . A similar idea is con- tained in one of the Tongan traditions of creation ; for when the ...
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James Anson Farrer. sung by the poets of no particular land nor literature . The Shawnee Indians believed there was a time when they could walk on the ocean or restore life to the dead , till they lost these privileges when the nation by ...
James Anson Farrer. sung by the poets of no particular land nor literature . The Shawnee Indians believed there was a time when they could walk on the ocean or restore life to the dead , till they lost these privileges when the nation by ...
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