A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs, and Pursuits, of Every NationE. Hopkins and W. Reed, 1826 - 452 Seiten |
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... women is very like to that of the men , but in addition to it they wear handkerchiefs , short aprons made of painted ... woman attempts to make use of this cu- Clest she should happen to meet the man at his departure , a cir Cumstance ...
... women is very like to that of the men , but in addition to it they wear handkerchiefs , short aprons made of painted ... woman attempts to make use of this cu- Clest she should happen to meet the man at his departure , a cir Cumstance ...
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... women consists in making nets , in drying fish and flesh , in milking the rein - deer , in making cheese , and tanning hides ; but the men attend to the kitchen , in which the women are seldom allowed to interfere . The principal ...
... women consists in making nets , in drying fish and flesh , in milking the rein - deer , in making cheese , and tanning hides ; but the men attend to the kitchen , in which the women are seldom allowed to interfere . The principal ...
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... women's clothes differ from the men's in several particulars ; their jackets have high shoulders , and a hood still higher ; they are not cut all round even at the bottom , like the men's , but form , both behind and before , a long ...
... women's clothes differ from the men's in several particulars ; their jackets have high shoulders , and a hood still higher ; they are not cut all round even at the bottom , like the men's , but form , both behind and before , a long ...
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... women's boat , called the umiak ; it is from twelve to eighteen yards long , four or five feet wide , and about three deep ; it is constructed with slen- der laths , fastened together with whalebone , and covered over with tanned seal ...
... women's boat , called the umiak ; it is from twelve to eighteen yards long , four or five feet wide , and about three deep ; it is constructed with slen- der laths , fastened together with whalebone , and covered over with tanned seal ...
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... woman not much younger than himself , with whom he expects no dowry but her clothes , knife , lamp , and sometimes a stone boiler to her skill in housewifery and sewing , he pays a principal regard ; and the women , on the other hand ...
... woman not much younger than himself , with whom he expects no dowry but her clothes , knife , lamp , and sometimes a stone boiler to her skill in housewifery and sewing , he pays a principal regard ; and the women , on the other hand ...
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Seite 4 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Seite 4 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Seite 201 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Seite 171 - Hence the English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national character, unless this very singularity may pass for such.
Seite 205 - AND it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Seite 312 - Europeans so frequently confounded ; the latter have been stationary at least as long as we have known them, while the slightest impulse seems sufficient to give a determination to the Japanese character, which would progressively improve until it attained the same height of civilization with the European.
Seite 321 - Antshar is one of the largest trees in the forests of Java. The stem is cylindrical, perpendicular, and rises completely naked to the height of sixty, seventy or eighty feet. Near the surface of the ground it spreads obliquely...
Seite 353 - Banderilla, the nutritive fruit of the banana tree comes no longer to maturity. In this foggy and cold region, therefore, want spurs on the Indian to labour and excites his industry. At the height of San Miguel pines begin to mingle with the oaks, which...
Seite 206 - Gentiles : and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword ; and there was not a man left.
Seite 348 - Of these, what may be considered as the Darcotas are the Mindawarcarton, or Minowakanton, known to the French by the name of the Gens du Lac, or People of the Lake.