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" The Tartar, accustomed to roam over extensive plains, and to subsist on the product of his herds, imprecates upon his enemy, as the greatest of all curses, that he may be condemned to reside in one place, and to be nourished with the top of a weed. The... "
A treatise on the records of the Creation, and on the moral attributes of ... - Page 383
by John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1825
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society

Adam Ferguson - 1768 - 452 pages
...Nations under the Imprejfions of Property and * ยป Interejl. IT was a proverbial imprecation in ufe among the hunting nations on the confines, of Siberia,...enemy might be obliged to live like a Tartar, and be feized with the folly pf breeding and attending his cattle *. Nature, it feems,. in their apprehenfion,...
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society

Adam Ferguson - 1773 - 502 pages
...Rude Nations under the Iinpre/fions of Property and Interejl. IT was a proverbial imprecation in ufe among the hunting nations on the confines of Siberia,...live like a Tartar, and have the folly of troubling himfelf with the charge of cattle*. Nature, it feems, in their apprehenfion, by ftoring the woods and...
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society

Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 434 pages
...a" proverbial imprecation in ufe among the hunting nations en the conr.nes of Siberia j That thair enemy might be obliged to live like a. Tartar, and have the folly of troubling himfelf with the charge of cattle *. Nature , it feems , in their apprehenfion , by ftoriug the woods...
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The History of America, Volume 2

William Robertson - 1803 - 424 pages
...to subsist on the product of his herds,' imprecates upon .his enemy, as the greatest of all curses, that he may be condemned to reside in one place, and to be nourished with the top of a weed. The rude Americans, fond of their own pursuits, and satisfied with their own lot, are equally unable...
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The history of America. In which is included the posthumous volume ..., Volume 6

William Robertson - 1803 - 454 pages
...herds, imprecates upon his enemy, as the greateft of all curfes, that he may be condemned to refide in one place, and to be nourished with the top of a weed. The rude Americans, fond of their own purfuits, and fatisfied with their own lot, are equally unable...
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society

Adam Ferguson - 1809 - 484 pages
...dictates of the heart. r SECTION III. 01 RUDE NATIONS UNDER THE IMPRESSIONS OF PROPERTY AND INTEREST. IT was a proverbial imprecation in use among the hunting...folly of troubling himself with the charge of cattle.* Nature, it seems, in their apprehension, by storing the woods and the desert with game, rendered the...
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America: In which is Included the Posthumous Volume Containing the ..., Volume 2

William Robertson - 1809 - 392 pages
...to subsist on the product of his herds, imprecates upon his. enemy, as the greatest of all curses, that he may be condemned to reside in one place, and to be nourished with the top of a weed. The rude Americans, fond of their own pursuits and satisfied with their own lot, are equally nnable...
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The Historical Works of William Robertson: With an Account of His ..., Volume 3

William Robertson - 1813 - 620 pages
...and to subsist on the product of his herds, imprecates upon his enemy, as the greatest of all curses, that he may be condemned to reside in one place, and to be nourished with the top of a weed. The rude Americans, fond of their own pursuits, and satisfied with their own lot, are equally unable...
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The historical works of William Robertson, with an account of his life and ...

William Robertson - 1813 - 490 pages
...and to subsist on the product of his herds, imprecates upon his enemy, as the greatest of all curses, that he may be condemned to reside in one place, and to be nourished with the top of a weed. The rude Americans, fond of their own pursuits, and satisfied with their own lot, are equally unable...
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The works of William Robertson, D.D. To which is prefixed, an ..., Volume 9

William Robertson - 1817 - 444 pages
...and to subsist on the productof his herds, imprecates upon his enemy, as the greatest of all curses, that he may be condemned to reside in one place, and to be nourished with the top of a weed. The rude Americans, fond of their own pursuits, and satisfied with their own lot, are equally unable...
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