Contributions to the History of the Development of the Human Race: Lectures and DissertationsTrübner & Company, 1880 - 156 páginas |
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... invention ; but in reality it is , with all its details , a primitive popular belief , much older than any line of any existing epic . Achilles and Odysseus are not imaginary poetical characters , but were demigods of the Greeks in ...
... invention ; but in reality it is , with all its details , a primitive popular belief , much older than any line of any existing epic . Achilles and Odysseus are not imaginary poetical characters , but were demigods of the Greeks in ...
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... inventions of our age . : We now know monuments and writings compared with which all that formerly was regarded as most ancient , Homer and the Bible included , appears almost modern . The French expedition to Egypt under Napoleon I ...
... inventions of our age . : We now know monuments and writings compared with which all that formerly was regarded as most ancient , Homer and the Bible included , appears almost modern . The French expedition to Egypt under Napoleon I ...
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... invention of gun- powder . How very differently is a ship now constructed from what it was at the time when it ... inventions of modern times . They were probably rather stumbled upon than invented . I have formed this view more ...
... invention of gun- powder . How very differently is a ship now constructed from what it was at the time when it ... inventions of modern times . They were probably rather stumbled upon than invented . I have formed this view more ...
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... invention of the shears , but he also speaks of such as were still practising it in his days ; and even Pliny says , " Sheep are not shorn everywhere ; in some places the custom of plucking continues " ( viii . 2 , 73 ) . The close ...
... invention of the shears , but he also speaks of such as were still practising it in his days ; and even Pliny says , " Sheep are not shorn everywhere ; in some places the custom of plucking continues " ( viii . 2 , 73 ) . The close ...
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... invention of the umbrella , which is an imitation of the primitive parasol , only for a different purpose . The parachute of aeronauts is likewise such a transformation . Do not such develop- ments of the productions of man's ideas and ...
... invention of the umbrella , which is an imitation of the primitive parasol , only for a different purpose . The parachute of aeronauts is likewise such a transformation . Do not such develop- ments of the productions of man's ideas and ...
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