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s not very late, as they are very populous, and have no tradition refpeding their own origin, but what is wholly fabulous; though, on the other hand, the fimplicity which is ftill prevalent in their manners and habits of life, and the unadulterated ftate of their general language, feem to demon - ftrate, that it could not have been at any vtry 'remote period.

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean [microform] : undertaken by command of His Majesty for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, being a copious, comprehensive and satisfactory abridgment of the voyage 1784

The quantity of ma - terials which the fame number of people can work up, increafes in a great proportion as - la - bour comes to be more and more fubdivided; and as the operations of each workman are gradually reduced to a greater degree of fimplicity, a va - riety of nev machines come to be invented for facilitating and abridging thdfe operations.

The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812

At their balls, during the winter, it is not rare to fee a hundred charm - ing girls, adorned witli thofe brilliant complex - ions feldom met with in journeying to the fouth and dreffed in elegant fimplicity.

Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797

About the time of Antoninus Pius, however, the workmen began to deviate from this fimplicity; and becoming gradually more capricious, introduced at length Hops of various forms; wherein the engraver feems to have fpelled the word according to the popular mode of pronunciation, which frequently rieglefted to found the A 'before the letter i', when it occurred in the middle of a word.

An illustration of the Roman antiquities discovered at Bath 1797

The elegant fimplicity of the former ver - fion, is often ftrained into abfolute diftortion.

The poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal. Ossian, 3rd cent 1796

HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN, and refined artifice, the femblance of the greatell moderation and fimplicity.

The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796

They mutilate the gofpel, deftroy its fimplicity, and lead us to lay an inordinate ftrefs upon thofe things which are of no great price in the fight of God.

Sermons on practical subjects Worthington, Hugh 1796

Scarcely had the alliance palfed the imperial feals, when churchmen, weary of that primitive fimplicity, which had been long the glory of their ordetj plunged themfelves into all the exceffes of ambition, luxury and grofs ignorance.

A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796

There was in his manner no diftant pride; no fupercilious affectation; nothing to difcourage, or difconcert; nothing, but what expreffed compla - cency, and fimplicity of heart.

The poetical works, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of the life of the author Clare, Thomas 1796

His fole concern was, in all earncftnefs, to lead mankind, by thofc qualities which render childhood fo amiable, by fimplicity, innocence, undiflembled kindnefs, and unfoUicitous reliance on the Father in heaven, to the fummit of moral perfedion, and thereby to the pureft eudsemony of which the human nature is fufceptible beyond the grave.

Private history of Peregrinus Proteus, the philosopher Wieland, Christoph Martin, 1733-1813 1796