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... blue defiant eyes , and light hair , that Tacitus says they all look alike . We should at first receive the same impression among a negro population . A nearer acquaintance enables us to perceive the dif- ferences which previously ...
... blue defiant eyes , and light hair , that Tacitus says they all look alike . We should at first receive the same impression among a negro population . A nearer acquaintance enables us to perceive the dif- ferences which previously ...
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... blue is not mentioned at all . If we consider the nature of the books to which this observation applies , the idea of chance must here be excluded . Let me first mention the wonderful , youthfully fresh hymns of the Rigveda , the ...
... blue is not mentioned at all . If we consider the nature of the books to which this observation applies , the idea of chance must here be excluded . Let me first mention the wonderful , youthfully fresh hymns of the Rigveda , the ...
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... blue could never have been gathered from these poems by any one who did not already know it himself . I re- frain from adducing proofs , which , in order to be ex- haustive , might easily swell on to the entire contents of the books ...
... blue could never have been gathered from these poems by any one who did not already know it himself . I re- frain from adducing proofs , which , in order to be ex- haustive , might easily swell on to the entire contents of the books ...
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... blue colour . Nay , even in the Homeric Poems the blue sky is not mentioned , although in the regions where they originated it exercises such a special charm on every visitor . You will grant that such a series of agreements cannot well ...
... blue colour . Nay , even in the Homeric Poems the blue sky is not mentioned , although in the regions where they originated it exercises such a special charm on every visitor . You will grant that such a series of agreements cannot well ...
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... blue , to this dark end . Of the words that in any language are used for blue , a smaller number originally signified green ; the greater number in the earliest time signified black . This ap- plies to our term blau ( blue ) , which is ...
... blue , to this dark end . Of the words that in any language are used for blue , a smaller number originally signified green ; the greater number in the earliest time signified black . This ap- plies to our term blau ( blue ) , which is ...
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