Selections from John William Draper's History of the Intellectual Development of Europe: Für Den Schulgebrauch Ausgewählt und Erklärt |
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... disturbed by the same accidents , or complete the same cycle as the individual . Some scarcely pass beyond infancy , 30 some are destroyed on a sudden , some die of mere old age . In this confusion of events , it might seem altogether ...
... disturbed by the same accidents , or complete the same cycle as the individual . Some scarcely pass beyond infancy , 30 some are destroyed on a sudden , some die of mere old age . In this confusion of events , it might seem altogether ...
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... disturbed ex- teriorly or interiorly . If from its original seats a whole nation were transposed to some new abode , in which the climate , the seasons , the aspect of 20 nature were altogether different , it would appear spontaneously ...
... disturbed ex- teriorly or interiorly . If from its original seats a whole nation were transposed to some new abode , in which the climate , the seasons , the aspect of 20 nature were altogether different , it would appear spontaneously ...
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... disturbed by several causes , among 30 which may be distinguished the great Atlantic current - the Gulf Stream coming from America— and the Sahara Desert . The latter gives to the south of Europe an unduly high heat , and the former to ...
... disturbed by several causes , among 30 which may be distinguished the great Atlantic current - the Gulf Stream coming from America— and the Sahara Desert . The latter gives to the south of Europe an unduly high heat , and the former to ...
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... disturbance ended . Again and again , in historic times , have its results operated fearfully on Europe , by forcibly precipitating the Asiatic nomades along the great path - zone ; again and 15 again , through such changes of level ...
... disturbance ended . Again and again , in historic times , have its results operated fearfully on Europe , by forcibly precipitating the Asiatic nomades along the great path - zone ; again and 15 again , through such changes of level ...
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... disturbance of the courses of water . The tribes compelled to migrate were forced along the path- 15 zone , their ... disturbances ; the caravan trade of Asia Minor was destroyed by changes of level and the accumulation of sands blown ...
... disturbance of the courses of water . The tribes compelled to migrate were forced along the path- 15 zone , their ... disturbances ; the caravan trade of Asia Minor was destroyed by changes of level and the accumulation of sands blown ...
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