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comptoir et la raison n
La raison en est simple: quoique partout on traite les noirs avec humanité, les blancs qui ont l'argent, ne sont pas disposés à faire aux noirs des avances, telles qu'elles les missent en état d'entreprendre le commerce en grand; d'ailleurs, il faut pour ce commerce quelques connoissances préliminaires, il faut faire un noviciat dans un comptoir, et la raison n'a pas encore ouvert
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

CLIFFORD ESQ LIEUTENANT ROYAL NAVY
AND A VOCABULARY OF THE LOO-CHOO LANGUAGE, BY H.J. CLIFFORD, ESQ. LIEUTENANT ROYAL NAVY.
— from Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall

CLIFFORD ESQ LIEUTENANT ROYAL NAVY
AT THE GREAT LOO-CHOO ISLAND, IN THE JAPAN SEA. COMPILED BY HERBERT JOHN CLIFFORD, ESQ. LIEUTENANT, ROYAL NAVY.
— from Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall

calvizie e le rughe nei
[27] Ottolenghi, “La canizie, la calvizie e le rughe nei criminali.”
— from The Criminal by Havelock Ellis

cause et la racine n
The Edict of Forgiveness answered no good purpose: " c'estoit bien peu d'oster pour un instant la douleur d'une maladie, si quant et quant la cause et la racine n'en estoit ostée ."
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Canizie e le Rughe nei
[43] La Calvizie, la Canizie e le Rughe nei normali, nei criminali negli epiletis e nei cretini .
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various


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