 | 1784 - 722 sider
...their natures ; but the (heep and goats, they pretended, did not furpafs the limits of their ideas, as they gave us to underftand that they knew them to be birds. It will appear," adds Capt. Cook, " incredible that human ignorance could ever make fo dränge a miftake ; as there... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1796 - 380 sider
...attention for a moment. ;They were afraid to come near the cows and horfes; nor did they form the leaft conception of their nature. But the fheep and goats...us to underftand, that they knew them to be birds. I made a prefent to my new friend, of what I thought might be moft acceptable to him; but, on his going... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1796 - 712 sider
...attention for a moment. They were afraid to come near the cows and horfes ; nor did they form the leaft conception of their nature. But the fheep and goats did not furpafs the ltmits of their ideas; for they gave us to underftand, that they knew them to be birds. J made a prefent... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1802 - 610 sider
...inhabitants," fays he, " were afraid to come near our cows and horfes, nor " did they form the leaft conception of their nature. " But the fheep and goats...the limits of " their ideas ; for they gave us to underfland that " they knew them to be birds. It will appear," he adds, " rather incredible, that human... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1802 - 632 sider
...near our cows and horfes, nor " did they form the leaft conception of their nature. " But the meep and goats did not furpafs the limits of " their ideas ; for they gave us to underfland that " they knev them to be birds. It will appear," he adds, " rather incredible, that human... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1808 - 590 sider
...inhabitants," fays he, " were afraid to come near our cows and horfes, nor " did they form the leaft conception of their nature. " But the fheep and goats...that " they knew them to be birds. It will appear," he adds, "rather ineredible, that human ignorance could ** ever make fo flrange a miftake, there not... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1812 - 1030 sider
...come near the cows and horfes ; nor did they form the lead conception of their nature. But the iheep and goats did not furpafs the limits of their ideas...incredible, that human ignorance could ever make fo ilrange a miftake ; there not being the moil diftant fimilitude between a iheep or a goat and any winged... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 520 sider
...general." f Dissertation on the Origin of Languages, annexed toMr. Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, ** of their ideas ; for they gave us to underftand that *' they knew them to be birds. It will appear," he adds, " rather incredible, that human ignorance could *' ever make fo ftrange a miftake, there not... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 564 sider
...inhabitants," fays he, were " afraid to come near our cows and horfes, nor did " they form the leaft conception of their nature. " But the fheep and goats did not furpafs the limits * The same account of the progress of the mind in the formation of genera^ is given by the Ahbe de... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 sider
...But the sheep and goats did not surpass the limits of their ideas ; for they gave us to understand, that they knew them to be birds. It will appear rather incredible, that human 1 Something like this ceremony was performed by the inhabitants of the Marquesas, when Captain Cook... | |
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They were afraid to come near the cows and horses ; nor did they form the least conception of their nature. But the sheep and goats did not surpass the limits of their ideas ; for they gave us to understand that they knew them to be birds. It will appear... 
