Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-history, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature, Том 3T. Bensley and sold by J. Wallis, 1800 |
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... persons who travel through the internal parts of America in winter , and well an- swers the purpose of blankets among the woods in those desart regions . This variety of buffalo is an animal of great size , and ranges in vast herds in ...
... persons who travel through the internal parts of America in winter , and well an- swers the purpose of blankets among the woods in those desart regions . This variety of buffalo is an animal of great size , and ranges in vast herds in ...
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... person who is curious in useful researches . Whether it be the same with the Chittigong cow , ` of which I have had imperfect notices from other quar - ́ ters , or the Sarluc , or grunting ox , of which also I have received some obscure ...
... person who is curious in useful researches . Whether it be the same with the Chittigong cow , ` of which I have had imperfect notices from other quar - ́ ters , or the Sarluc , or grunting ox , of which also I have received some obscure ...
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... person might inhabit those countries for a long life - time without ever knowing that such a creature existed . 1 But , though its existence in its fly state be so very evanescent , it lives in its larva state longer than most of the ...
... person might inhabit those countries for a long life - time without ever knowing that such a creature existed . 1 But , though its existence in its fly state be so very evanescent , it lives in its larva state longer than most of the ...
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... persons both before and since that time may have inhabited that metropolis for many years , without having either seen or heard of it . " It was now , " says he , " the time when they had made me expect that I should see millions of ...
... persons both before and since that time may have inhabited that metropolis for many years , without having either seen or heard of it . " It was now , " says he , " the time when they had made me expect that I should see millions of ...
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... person , only exhaust their strength by the unavailing efforts they make to extricate themselves from that labyrinth in which they find themselves inclosed . To this cause I am willing to attribute the ineffectual exertion of so much ...
... person , only exhaust their strength by the unavailing efforts they make to extricate themselves from that labyrinth in which they find themselves inclosed . To this cause I am willing to attribute the ineffectual exertion of so much ...
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Страница 236 - ... to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent. How different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order ; and how different from the mode of conversation in many polite companies of Europe, where, if you do not deliver your sentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the impatient...
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Страница 239 - Conrad answered all his questions; and when the discourse began to flag, the Indian, to continue it, said, "Conrad, you have lived long among the white people, and know something of their customs; I have been sometimes at Albany, and have observed that once in seven days they shut up their shops and assemble all in the great house; tell me what it is for? What do they do there?" "They meet there," says Conrad, "to hear and learn good things.
Страница 239 - ... guides, or any necessaries for continuing their journey; and nothing is exacted for the entertainment. The same hospitality, esteemed among them as a principal virtue, is practised by private persons; of which Conrad Weiser, our interpreter, gave me the following instance. He had been naturalized among the Six Nations, and spoke well the Mohawk language.
Страница 241 - ... and we spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on ; we demand nothing in return. But, if I go into a white man's house at Albany, and ask for victuals and drink, they say, 'Where is your money?' and if I have none, they say,
Страница 237 - What you have told us," says he, "is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all into cider. We are much obliged by your kindness in coming so far to tell us those things which you have heard from your mothers.
Страница 235 - Nations would send down half a dozen of their sons to that college, the government would take care that they should be well provided for, and instructed in all the learning of the white people. It is one of the Indian rules of politeness, not to answer a public proposition the same day that it is made ; they think it would be treating it as a light matter, and that they show it respect by taking time to consider it, as of a matter important.