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Page 139
... manner , and traces in their works the embryos of all the arts , sciences , and ingenuity which flourish in Europe . Here he beholds fair cities , substantial villages , extensive fields , an immense country filled with decent houses ...
... manner , and traces in their works the embryos of all the arts , sciences , and ingenuity which flourish in Europe . Here he beholds fair cities , substantial villages , extensive fields , an immense country filled with decent houses ...
Page 146
... manners , which I cannot casily describe . These new manners being grafted on the old stock , produce a strange sort of lawless profligacy , the impressions of which are indelible . The manners of the Indian natives are respectable ...
... manners , which I cannot casily describe . These new manners being grafted on the old stock , produce a strange sort of lawless profligacy , the impressions of which are indelible . The manners of the Indian natives are respectable ...
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... manner , were obliged to take him out again in the same manner , or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground . * The wretched contrivance with which this latter part is told cx- ceeds everything that went before it ...
... manner , were obliged to take him out again in the same manner , or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground . * The wretched contrivance with which this latter part is told cx- ceeds everything that went before it ...
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