Copy 1, Volume 3

The doctor &c / [Robert Southey].

  • Robert Southey
Date:
1834-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The doctor &c / [Robert Southey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER LXXX. OBSERVATIONS WHICH SHEW THAT WHATEVER PRIDE MEN MAY TAKE IN THE APPELLATIONS THEY AC¬ QUIRE IN THEIR PROGRESS THROUGH THE WORLD, THEIR DEAREST NAME DIES BEFORE THEM, -- Thus they who reach Grey hairs, die piece meal. Southey. The name of Leonard must now be dropt as we proceed. Some of the South-Ameriean tribes, among whom the Jesuits laboured with such exemplary zeal, and who take their per¬ sonal appellations, (as most names were origi¬ nally derived,) from beasts, birds, plants and other visible objects, abolish upon the death of every individual the name by which he was called, and invent another for the thing from which it was taken, so that their language,