 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 808 pages
...for wrongs inflicted, and as exempt from the worst propensities of human passion as any people upon the face of the earth ; they are faithful and affectionate in service, and submissive to legal authority ; they are superstitious it is true, but they do not think ill of us for not thinking as they do. Gross... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Africa - 1828 - 412 pages
...gratitude for kindness shewn to them, than prompted to vengeance by wrongs inflicted, and as exempt from the worst propensities of human passion as any people...affectionate in service, and submissive to legal authority. They are superstitious, it is true, but they do not think ill of us for not thinking as they do.-)-... | |
 | Asia - 1829 - 1030 pages
...susceptible of gratitude for kindness than prompted to revenge by wrongs inflicted, and as exempt from the worst propensities of human passion as any people...affectionate in service, and submissive to legal authority ; they are superstitious, it is true, but they do not think the worse of us for not- thinking as they... | |
 | George Thompson - Great Britain - 1840 - 222 pages
...gratitude for kindness shown to them, than prompted to vengeance by wrongs inflicted, ajid as exempt from the worst propensities of human passion, as any people...affectionate in service, and submissive to legal authority ; they are superstitious, it is true, but they do not think ill of us for not thinking as they do."... | |
 | James Mill - Hindus - 1840 - 650 pages
...for wrongs inflicted, and as exempt from the worst propensities of human passion as any people upon the face of the earth ; they are faithful and affectionate in service, and submissive to legal authority ; they are superstitious, it is true, but they do not think ill of us for not thinking as they do.... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Ethnology - 1858 - 654 pages
...gratitude for kindness shown to them, than prompted to cengeance by wrongs inflicted, and as exempt from the worst propensities of human passion, as any people on the face of the earth ; they are jaithful and affectionate in service, and submissice to legal antlwrity ; they are superstitious, it... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Ethnology - 1858 - 414 pages
...he has " omitted to mention one, which is not a general, but a universal, trait of their character. Their temperance is demonstrated in the simplicity...their food, and their total abstinence from spirituous liqiwrs, and other substances of intoxication." But what is the case now ] Arrack, the Madras petition... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Ethnology - 1858 - 410 pages
...observed, speaks of the Hindoos — as distinct, indeed, from. the Mussulmen — as being " as exempt from the worst propensities of human passion as any people on the face of the earth ; . . . faithful and affectionate in service, and submissive to legal authority." Sir John Malcolm,... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1859 - 830 pages
...celebrated trial, says of the natives, 'that sobriety is not a general but a universal trait of character. Their temperance is demonstrated in the simplicity...spirituous liquors, and other substances of intoxication.' But what is the case now? The Hon. Mr. Shore, a gentleman who filled successively the situations of... | |
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Mahomedans, who are intermixed with them, but generally live in separate communities; the former are gentle, benevolent, more susceptible of gratitude for kindness shewn to them, than provoked to vengeance by wrongs inflicted, and as exempt from the worst... 
