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... fuch a mixture of refemblance and diffimilitude , as to render it uncertain to what fpecies they be- long . But fuch inftances are rare , and impinge not on the general law . Such queftions may be curious , but they are of little ufe ...
... fuch a mixture of refemblance and diffimilitude , as to render it uncertain to what fpecies they be- long . But fuch inftances are rare , and impinge not on the general law . Such queftions may be curious , but they are of little ufe ...
Side 5
... fuch a fa- culty may be thought unneceffary to man , being fupplied by reafon and experience . But as reafon and experience have little influence on brute ani- mals , they undoubtedly poffefs that faculty * . beaft of prey would be ill ...
... fuch a fa- culty may be thought unneceffary to man , being fupplied by reafon and experience . But as reafon and experience have little influence on brute ani- mals , they undoubtedly poffefs that faculty * . beaft of prey would be ill ...
Side 11
... fuch ani- mals can procreate together ? " They are , " fays he , " of different kinds , having no fuch refem- " blance as to make us pronounce them to be " of the fame kind . Linnæus and Briffon , " he * Vol . xii . p . 223 . adds ...
... fuch ani- mals can procreate together ? " They are , " fays he , " of different kinds , having no fuch refem- " blance as to make us pronounce them to be " of the fame kind . Linnæus and Briffon , " he * Vol . xii . p . 223 . adds ...
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... fuch a climate people have retain- ed their original vigour . Several European colo- nies have fubfifted in the torrid zone of America more than two centuries ; and yet even that length of time has not familiarized them to the climate ...
... fuch a climate people have retain- ed their original vigour . Several European colo- nies have fubfifted in the torrid zone of America more than two centuries ; and yet even that length of time has not familiarized them to the climate ...
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... fuch I confine the inquiry . There is no propenfity in human nature more general than averfion from ftrangers , as will be made evi- dent afterward * . And yet fome nations muft be excepted , not indeed many in number , who are ...
... fuch I confine the inquiry . There is no propenfity in human nature more general than averfion from ftrangers , as will be made evi- dent afterward * . And yet fome nations muft be excepted , not indeed many in number , who are ...
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