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... FIRE V. COOKING AND POTTERY . 19 VI . DWELLINGS 20 VII . USE OF METALS 23 VIII . MAN'S GREAT AGE ON THE EARTH . 28 IX . MANKIND AS SHEPHERDS , FARMERS , AND TRADERS . 32 X. LANGUAGE 37 XI . WRITING 43 SECT . PAGE XII . COUNTING 45 XIII ...
... FIRE V. COOKING AND POTTERY . 19 VI . DWELLINGS 20 VII . USE OF METALS 23 VIII . MAN'S GREAT AGE ON THE EARTH . 28 IX . MANKIND AS SHEPHERDS , FARMERS , AND TRADERS . 32 X. LANGUAGE 37 XI . WRITING 43 SECT . PAGE XII . COUNTING 45 XIII ...
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... fire for warmth , and some place for shelter when night came on , and wild beasts howled and roared around him . See how , in the first step he had to take , man is unlike the brutes . Wherever God has placed the brute , He has given it ...
... fire for warmth , and some place for shelter when night came on , and wild beasts howled and roared around him . See how , in the first step he had to take , man is unlike the brutes . Wherever God has placed the brute , He has given it ...
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... fire scooped them out to make canoes , for it was plain to them that wood floated on the water ; they killed their food , cut it up , broke the bones to suck out the marrow ; cracked sea - shells to get out the fish inside them ...
... fire scooped them out to make canoes , for it was plain to them that wood floated on the water ; they killed their food , cut it up , broke the bones to suck out the marrow ; cracked sea - shells to get out the fish inside them ...
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... fire was to be had by rubbing two pieces of wood together . In making their flint weapons sparks would fly , but they saw that the flints themselves could not be set on fire . When they felt cold , they rubbed their hands together and ...
... fire was to be had by rubbing two pieces of wood together . In making their flint weapons sparks would fly , but they saw that the flints themselves could not be set on fire . When they felt cold , they rubbed their hands together and ...
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Page 4 - Quatorze;" any previous literature being for the most part unknown or ignored. Fe-w know anything of the enormous literary activity that began in the thirteenth century, was carried on by Rulebeuf, Marie de France, Gaston de Foix, Thibault de Champagne, and Lorris ; was fostered by Charles of Orleans, by Margaret of Valois, by Francis the First ; that gave a crowd of versifiers to France, enriched, strengthened, developed, and fixed the French language, and prepared the way for Corneille and for...