Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and CivilizationD. Appleton, 1881 - 448 páginas |
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Página 428 - The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Página 450 - But, whenever it had appeared, with so lucid and graphic a style, so larae a knowledge of the Irish question, and so statesmanlike a grasp of its conditions, it would have been a book of great mark."— London Spectator. A History of Greece. From the Earliest Times to the Present. By TT TIMAYENIS. With Maps and Illustrations. 2 vols., 12mo, cloth, $3.50.
Página 450 - HISTORY OF HERODOTUS. An English Version, edited, with Copious Notes and Appendices, by GEORGE RAWLINSON, MA With Maps and Illustrations. New edition. In four volumes, 8vo, vellum cloth.
Página 434 - that all men are created equal," we shall in fact scarcely find such equality except among savage hunters and foresters, and by no means always then. The greatest of all divisions, that between freeman and slave, appears as soon as the barbaric warrior spares the life of his enemy when he has him down, and brings him home to drudge for him and till the soil.
Página 450 - While I cheerfully acknowledge my obligations to Gibbon and Grote— the most eminent of modern historians— a careful c tndy of the Greek writers has led me to differ from them on many important matters. The peculiar feature of the present work, therefore, is that it is founded on Hellenic sources.
Página 123 - Nor (unless where artificial signs have been brought in by teachers) is there anything in the gesture-language to correspond with the inflexions of words, such as distinguish goest from go, him from he, domum from domus. What is done is to call up a picture in the minds of the spectators by first' setting up something to be thought about, and then adding to or acting on it till the whole story is told.* If the signs do not follow in such order as to carry meaning as they go, the looker-on will be...
Página 409 - Much of the wrong-doing of the world comes from want of imagination. If the drunkard could see before him the misery of next year with something of the vividness of the present craving, it would overbalance it. Ofttimes in the hottest fury of anger, the sword has been sheathed by him across whose mind has flashed the prophetic picture of the women weeping round the blood-stained corpse. The lower races of men are so wanting in foresight to resist passion and temptation, that the moral balance of...
Página 449 - Fcap. 8vo, 4s. 6d. OLIPHANT. The Land of Gilead. With Excursions in the Lebanon. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Author of . Lord Elgin's Mission to China and Japan,.
Página 367 - We were anciently enriched by this rite ; all around us are great from it ; therefore, by our cattle, our flocks, our pigs, and our grain we procured a victim and offered a sacrifice. Do you now enrich us. Let our herds be so numerous that they cannot be housed ; let children so abound that the care of them shall overcome their parents — as shall be seen by their burned hands...
Página 66 - At the same time the Australian and African have more retreating foreheads than the European, FIG. 1o. — Side view of skulls. d, Australian, prognathous; e, African, prognathous ; f, European, orthognathous. to the disadvantage of the frontal lobes of their brain as compared with ours.