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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
of the unequal contest inspires a compassion that is honorable to humanity. A. Humboldt, Nouv. Esp. i. 380. The weak demand sympathy. If a melancholy interest attaaws to language: the forms of grammar, the power of combinations, the pos- Alex. Humboldt, Voyage III 305. sibility of inversions, spring from within us, and are a coco, and from the, burning climes on the borders of that stream to the ice of Humboldt, Voyage, III. 306. the Straits of Magellan, the primitive American languages, he Pyrenees, the black man of Congo, and the copper-colored tribes of North A. Humboldt, Voy. III. 307; Researches, i. 19. America. Now, a characteristic so extens year, and, at the end of one hundred and four years, made their Interca- A von Humboldt. lation more accurately than the Greeks, the Romans, or the Egyptians. The d two hundred geographical miles, and at no moment need the mariner be more A. Humboldt's N. E. II. 501, &c. than forty leagues distant from land: and a chain of th