The Right Hand: Left-handednessMacmillan, 1891 - 215 páginas |
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... writing as the symbol for strength , power , or mastery thus derived . " But the use of the hand as the chief organ of gesture- language shows how varied are the applications that it admits of as a significant emblem . Washington Irving ...
... writing as the symbol for strength , power , or mastery thus derived . " But the use of the hand as the chief organ of gesture- language shows how varied are the applications that it admits of as a significant emblem . Washington Irving ...
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... writer then goes on to affirm : " It has never existed amongst rank barbarians ; it is not indicated in the genuine flint instruments ; but only in those which modern dexterity plants in old strata , to delight and defraud antiquarians ...
... writer then goes on to affirm : " It has never existed amongst rank barbarians ; it is not indicated in the genuine flint instruments ; but only in those which modern dexterity plants in old strata , to delight and defraud antiquarians ...
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... in reference to the manipulations of the primitive flint - worker , and , in writing to me on the subject , he remarks : " I think that there is some evidence of the flint - workers of old having been 56 CHAP . LEFT - HANDEDNESS.
... in reference to the manipulations of the primitive flint - worker , and , in writing to me on the subject , he remarks : " I think that there is some evidence of the flint - workers of old having been 56 CHAP . LEFT - HANDEDNESS.
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... writer in the Medical Record in 1886 says : " No purely left - handed race has ever been discovered , although there seems to be a difference in different tribes . Seventy per cent of the inhabit- ants of the Punjab use the left hand by ...
... writer in the Medical Record in 1886 says : " No purely left - handed race has ever been discovered , although there seems to be a difference in different tribes . Seventy per cent of the inhabit- ants of the Punjab use the left hand by ...
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... writing . The forms of the old Semitic alphabet , like the Egyptian hiero- glyphics , are specially adapted to cutting on stone . The square Hebrew characters are of much later date ; but they also , like the uncials of early Christian ...
... writing . The forms of the old Semitic alphabet , like the Egyptian hiero- glyphics , are specially adapted to cutting on stone . The square Hebrew characters are of much later date ; but they also , like the uncials of early Christian ...
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