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Page xiv
... inhabitants— Horace on the thick air of Boeotia - Hesiod , Pindar , Corinna , and Plutarch - natives of Boeotia - the Athenian and Boeotian compared -Thebans - character of the Arcadian compared with that of the Swiss - Horace - Leake ...
... inhabitants— Horace on the thick air of Boeotia - Hesiod , Pindar , Corinna , and Plutarch - natives of Boeotia - the Athenian and Boeotian compared -Thebans - character of the Arcadian compared with that of the Swiss - Horace - Leake ...
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... inhabitant of one region envies not his remote brother . The Esquimaux would not change with the Indian , for each is adapted to his peculiar circumstances ; and so perfect is the harmony of nature , that general discontent against the ...
... inhabitant of one region envies not his remote brother . The Esquimaux would not change with the Indian , for each is adapted to his peculiar circumstances ; and so perfect is the harmony of nature , that general discontent against the ...
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... inhabitants of Thasos during this period were associated , not only with their peculiar exposure to the northerly winds which blew over Thrace , but also with their own habits , which have been alluded to before . As a people , in the ...
... inhabitants of Thasos during this period were associated , not only with their peculiar exposure to the northerly winds which blew over Thrace , but also with their own habits , which have been alluded to before . As a people , in the ...
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... excelled most in the arts , sciences , and war , whose inhabitants have been ever subject to variability of climate , where death makes no distinction of persons , where all classes and 42 THE IATRO - METEOROLOGY OF HIPPOCRATES .
... excelled most in the arts , sciences , and war , whose inhabitants have been ever subject to variability of climate , where death makes no distinction of persons , where all classes and 42 THE IATRO - METEOROLOGY OF HIPPOCRATES .
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... inhabitants have to contend with the vicissitudes of weather . We know that certain temperaments are more liable to take on one class of diseases than another : were the climate of the country to which any set of people hed migrated ...
... inhabitants have to contend with the vicissitudes of weather . We know that certain temperaments are more liable to take on one class of diseases than another : were the climate of the country to which any set of people hed migrated ...
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