View of the origin and migrations of the Polynesian nation; demonstrating their ancient discovery of the continent of AmericaJ. Cochrane, 1834 - 256 páginas |
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... remarkable peculiarities originally acci- dental , in the course of three or four thousand years , is not to be estimated in a twinkling , even by the acutest German professor armed with his rule and compasses , and seated in his ...
... remarkable peculiarities originally acci- dental , in the course of three or four thousand years , is not to be estimated in a twinkling , even by the acutest German professor armed with his rule and compasses , and seated in his ...
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... remarkable pecu- liarity in the physical aspect of that portion of the earth's surface ; for all over the intertropical regions of the vast Pacific Ocean , the coral insect is still employed in forming islands innumerable , and in ...
... remarkable pecu- liarity in the physical aspect of that portion of the earth's surface ; for all over the intertropical regions of the vast Pacific Ocean , the coral insect is still employed in forming islands innumerable , and in ...
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... remarkable resemblance between these languages and those of the Indian Archipe- lago was also remarked . " In the general cha- racter , particular form , and genius of the innu- merable languages spoken within the limits of the Indian ...
... remarkable resemblance between these languages and those of the Indian Archipe- lago was also remarked . " In the general cha- racter , particular form , and genius of the innu- merable languages spoken within the limits of the Indian ...
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... thrown on both of these interesting subjects of inquiry , by an attentive investigation of their proper bearings . Miscellaneous Works , " page 5 . There is one remarkable peculiarity , for in- stance , THE POLYNESIAN NATION . 35.
... thrown on both of these interesting subjects of inquiry , by an attentive investigation of their proper bearings . Miscellaneous Works , " page 5 . There is one remarkable peculiarity , for in- stance , THE POLYNESIAN NATION . 35.
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... remarkable peculiarity consists in their having a language of ceremony or deference distinct from the language of common life — a pe- culiarity which , however repugnant to that innate freedom of thought and of action which forms the ...
... remarkable peculiarity consists in their having a language of ceremony or deference distinct from the language of common life — a pe- culiarity which , however repugnant to that innate freedom of thought and of action which forms the ...
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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 appear Asia Asiatic Aztecks blood cannibalism canoes cast character chief Chili China Chinese Christianity civilization class of languages coast colony continent of America derived dialects 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 Polynesian language Polynesian nation postdiluvian practice prevalence primitive pyramids race racter Red River Colony regard remarkable resemblance 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 tongue 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 199 - 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 172 - ... hath made of one blood all the nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Página 124 - Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury ; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Página 217 - ... ascending or descending the staircase of the pyramid, was beheld at a considerable distance. The inside of the edifice was the burial place of the kings and principal personages of Mexico. It is impossible to read the descriptions, which Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus have left us of the temple of Jupiter Belus, without being struck with the resemblance of that Babylonian monument to the Teocallis of Anahuac.
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 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. From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilise the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens.
Página 62 - ... could have proceeded from the east. The winds would favour their passage, and the incipient stages of civilization in which they were found would resemble the condition of the aborigines of America far more than that of the Asiatics. There are many well-authenticated accounts of long voyages performed in native vessels by the inhabitants of both the North and South Pacific. In 1696 two canoes were driven from Ancarso to one of the Philippine Islands, a distance of ~eight hundred miles. " They...
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 220 - This construction recalls to mind that of one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakharah, which has six stories ; and which, according to Pocock, is a mass of pebbles and yellow mortar, covered on the outside with rough stones.