On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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Page 73
... Inhabitants of Deserts . - The inhabitants of deserts have , for the most part , been separated alike from the pleasures and the habits of civilized life . The Mauritanians and Gætulians knew little or nothing of husbandry ; they roved ...
... Inhabitants of Deserts . - The inhabitants of deserts have , for the most part , been separated alike from the pleasures and the habits of civilized life . The Mauritanians and Gætulians knew little or nothing of husbandry ; they roved ...
Page 160
... inhabitants . Warm climates dispose to indolence , cold ones to labour . In some islands , where Nature is the most luxuriant and profuse , we observe not only no genius , but no humanity , wheth- er those islands are in the temperate ...
... inhabitants . Warm climates dispose to indolence , cold ones to labour . In some islands , where Nature is the most luxuriant and profuse , we observe not only no genius , but no humanity , wheth- er those islands are in the temperate ...
Page 161
... inhabitants receive a like educa- tion . " Theophrastus was mistaken : the inhabitants of the dif ferent Greek states had by no means the same education ; and hence the phenomena which so much excited his astonishment . N being governed ...
... inhabitants receive a like educa- tion . " Theophrastus was mistaken : the inhabitants of the dif ferent Greek states had by no means the same education ; and hence the phenomena which so much excited his astonishment . N being governed ...
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