View of the Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Nation: Demonstrating Their Ancient Discovery and Progressive Settlement of the Continent of AmericaJ Cochrane and Company, 1834 - 256 páginas |
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... signifying either sacred or ac- cursed , holy or unclean . Under the Levitical law the show - bread was taboo , or forbidden to all but the priests . The leper was also taboo , for his touch communicated ceremonial pollution . The Jews ...
... signifying either sacred or ac- cursed , holy or unclean . Under the Levitical law the show - bread was taboo , or forbidden to all but the priests . The leper was also taboo , for his touch communicated ceremonial pollution . The Jews ...
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... from the same source " as the Polynesian . One of the Malayan words adduced by Mr. E. is the word shems , signifying the sun , which has certainly very little resemblance to the Polynesian word ra or la . 26 ORIGIN AND MIGRATIONS OF.
... from the same source " as the Polynesian . One of the Malayan words adduced by Mr. E. is the word shems , signifying the sun , which has certainly very little resemblance to the Polynesian word ra or la . 26 ORIGIN AND MIGRATIONS OF.
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... signifying man , has its cognates in the dialects of Otaheite and New Zealand ; and so also has the Malay word macan , to eat . It will not be thought singular that the Polynesian word marama or malama , the moon , which is actually ...
... signifying man , has its cognates in the dialects of Otaheite and New Zealand ; and so also has the Malay word macan , to eat . It will not be thought singular that the Polynesian word marama or malama , the moon , which is actually ...
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... signification , Sir William concluded , doubtless rather prematurely , that the Sanscrit of Western India was the common parent of both of these eastern tongues . That eminent orientalist was perhaps overfond of referring every thing to ...
... signification , Sir William concluded , doubtless rather prematurely , that the Sanscrit of Western India was the common parent of both of these eastern tongues . That eminent orientalist was perhaps overfond of referring every thing to ...
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... signification of the noun with which it is conjoined . Thus it would be improper to say , although in apparent accordance with the examples already given , y ko tao , a sword ; y ko ma , a horse ; y ko hoa , a flower . He who would ...
... signification of the noun with which it is conjoined . Thus it would be improper to say , although in apparent accordance with the examples already given , y ko tao , a sword ; y ko ma , a horse ; y ko hoa , a flower . He who would ...
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View of the Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Nation: Demonstrating ... John Dunmore Lang Visualização completa - 1834 |
View of the Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Nation: Demonstrating ... John Dunmore Lang Visualização completa - 1834 |
View of the origin and migrations of the Polynesian nation; demonstrating ... John Dunmore Lang Visualização completa - 1834 |
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aborigines of America affinity ages analogies ancient antediluvian appears Asiatic Aztecks blood cannibalism canoes cast character chief Chili China Chinese Christianity civilization class of languages coast colony continent of America derived distance divine doubtless Ducies Island east Easter Island Eastern eastward edifices Egypt Egyptian empire erected European evidence exhibit Friendly Islands guages Guiana human Humboldt's Researches hundred hypothesis Indian Archipelago Indo-American nations Indo-Chinese inhabitants instance isles king land Malayan Malays mankind Marsden Mexican Mexico natives nesian northward observes origin Otaheite Pacific Ocean peculiar period Peru Poly Polynesian language Polynesian nation postdiluvian practice prevalence primitive pyramids race racter Red River Colony regard remarkable resemblance rican Sanscrit savage settlement signifying similar singular society South America South Sea Islands South Wales Spaniards stone Sumatra supposed taboo Tahitian temple teocalli Teotihuacan thousand tion Tonga tongues trepang tribes vast vessel voyage westerly westward winds words Zealand
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Página 19 - I am not very willing that any language should be totally extinguished. The similitude and derivation of languages afford the most indubitable proof of the traduction of nations, and the genealogy of mankind. They add often physical certainty to historical evidence ; and often supply the only evidence of ancient migrations, and of the revolutions of ages which left no written monuments behind them.
Página 201 - Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood : neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Página 174 - ... hath made of one blood all the nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Página 90 - The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history or tradition of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language.
Página 57 - They get the trepang by diving, in from 3 to 8 fathoms water; and where it is abundant, a man will bring up eight or ten at a time. The mode of preserving it is this: the animal is split down one side, boiled, and pressed with a weight of stones; then stretched open...
Página 165 - The striking analogy between the numerals and other parts of the language, and several of the customs, of the aborigines of Madagascar, and those of the Malays who inhabit the Asiatic islands, many thousands of miles distant in one direction, and of the Polynesians more remote in another, shows that they were originally one people, or that they had emigrated from the same source.
Página 114 - Along the southern coast, both on the east and west sides, we frequently saw a number of straight lines, semicircles, or concentric rings, with some rude imitations of the human figure, cut or carved in the compact rocks of lava. They did not appear to have been cut with an iron instrument, but with a stone hatchet, or a stone less frangible than the rock on which they were portrayed.
Página 62 - Thirty-five had embarked, but five had died from the effects of privation and fatigue during the voyage, and one shortly after their arrival. In 1720 two canoes were drifted from a remote distance to one of the Marian Islands. Captain Cook found in the island of Wateo Atiu inhabitants of Tahiti, who had been drifted by contrary winds in a canoe, from some islands to the eastward, unknown to the natives. Several parties have, within the last few years...
Página 225 - It cannot be doubted that the greater part of the nations of America belong to a race of men, who, isolated ever since the infancy of the world from the rest of mankind, exhibit in the nature and diversity of language, in their features, and the conformation of their skull, incontestable proofs of an early and complete civilisation.
Página 248 - Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae deerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset: natus homo est, sive hunc divino semine fecit ille opifex rerum, mundi melioris origo, sive recens tellus seductaque nuper ab alto aethere cognati retinebat semina caeli; quam satus lapeto mixtam pluvialibus undis finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum, pronaque cum spectent animalia cetera terram, os homini sublime dedit caelumque videre iussit et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.