| 1784 - 1282 σελίδες
...their natures ; hoc tne flieepand goats, they pretended, did not furpafs the limits of tlietr ideas, as they gave us to understand that they knew them to be birds. It will appear (adds captain Cooke) incredible that human ignorance could ever make fo ftrange a miltake, as there... | |
| 1790 - 640 σελίδες
...But the fheep and goats did not furpafs the limits of their ideas; for they gave us to underftand, that they knew them to be birds. It will appear rather incredible, that human ignorance could ever make fo ftrange a miftake; there not being the moft dillant likeneis, between a fheepora goat, and any winged... | |
| John Pinkerton - 1812 - 1030 σελίδες
...But the iheep and goats did not furpafs the limits of their ideas ; for they gave us to underftand, that they knew them to be birds. It will appear rather 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... | |
| General history - 1814 - 798 σελίδες
...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...birds. It will appear rather incredible, that human 1 Something like this ceremony was performed by the inhabitants of the Marquesas, when Captain Cook... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 σελίδες
...cows and horses, nor did they form the least con" ception of their nature. But the sheep and goats did " not surpass the limits of their ideas ; for...that they knew them to be birds. It " will appear," he adds, " rather incredible, that human * The same account of the progress of the mind in the formation... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 382 σελίδες
...ideas ; for they gave us to understand that they knew "them to be birds. It will appear," he adds, "rather incredible, " that human ignorance could ever...being the most distant similitude between a sheep or goal, " and any winged animal. But these people seemed to know noth" ing of the existence of any other... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 σελίδες
...our 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...be birds." — " It will appear rather incredible," he adds, " that human ignorance could ever make so strange a mistake ; there not being the most distant... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 σελίδες
...cows and " horses, nor did they form the least conception of their nature. Bat " the sheep and goats did not surpass the limits of their ideas ; for they " gave us to understand that they know them to be birds. It will ap" pear,'' he adds, " rather incredible, that human ignorance could... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1824 - 532 σελίδες
...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...birds. It will appear rather incredible, that human. * 1 Something like this ceremony was performed by the inhabitants of the Marquesas, when Captain Cook... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1826 - 208 σελίδες
...our 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, they knew them to be birds." Captain Cook informs us, that these people were acqjaainted with only... | |
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