Essays on the Origin of Society, Language, Property, Government, Jurisdiction, Contracts, and Marriage: Interspersed with Illustrations from the Greek and Galic Languages. By James Grant, ...B. Millan, 1785 - 208 pages |
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... ages , have led us into an acquaintance with varieties of condition in which the human fpecies are found to exist . Mankind appear in all fituations divided into tribes , herding toge- ther , fubfifting in distinct communities , who un ...
... ages , have led us into an acquaintance with varieties of condition in which the human fpecies are found to exist . Mankind appear in all fituations divided into tribes , herding toge- ther , fubfifting in distinct communities , who un ...
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... ages , tranfmitted to posterity , are univerfally found to approach to the style and numbers of poetry . The diftinc tion of two genders fufficiently fatisfies the mind . of primeval Man : the invention of a third gender F 2 of ORIGIN ...
... ages , tranfmitted to posterity , are univerfally found to approach to the style and numbers of poetry . The diftinc tion of two genders fufficiently fatisfies the mind . of primeval Man : the invention of a third gender F 2 of ORIGIN ...
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... age of wild freedom , to the glowing fancy of an ani- mated poet . IN confidering the prefent fubject an obfervation occurs , that it seems to be a natural disposition.in the mind of primeval Man , to apply the name in- vented for one ...
... age of wild freedom , to the glowing fancy of an ani- mated poet . IN confidering the prefent fubject an obfervation occurs , that it seems to be a natural disposition.in the mind of primeval Man , to apply the name in- vented for one ...
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... age may be difpofed to deny to the fimplicity of primitive fociety , must be admitted by those who are in any degree converfant in the philofophy of a primitive and uncorrupted language . It will be found on examination , that the Galic ...
... age may be difpofed to deny to the fimplicity of primitive fociety , must be admitted by those who are in any degree converfant in the philofophy of a primitive and uncorrupted language . It will be found on examination , that the Galic ...
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... most respect- able for age and useful qualities , would naturally * Coed or Coeid , common food ; Coir , common land .. affume assume that employment . It is curious to ob- ferve 74 ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT .. Origin of Government.
... most respect- able for age and useful qualities , would naturally * Coed or Coeid , common food ; Coir , common land .. affume assume that employment . It is curious to ob- ferve 74 ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT .. Origin of Government.
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Page 145 - Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine : And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page 139 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 3 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 139 - The land through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it, are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants : and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
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Page 145 - And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do.
Page 139 - And it came to pass, when men began to multiply upon the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
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Page 189 - E. that would furnish them for a time with subsistence, and left behind them when, after it was exhausted, they went away : But in places where they remained only for a night or two, they slept without any shelter, except the bushes or grass, which is here near two feet high.
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