 | 1805 - 948 pages
...They are a mild, quiet, and timid people; perfectly harmless, honest, faithful; and, diough extremely phlegmatic, they are kind and affectionate to each...incapable of strong attachments. A Hottentot would share his last morsel with his companions. They have little of that kind of art or cunning that savages... | |
 | Great Britain - 1802 - 700 pages
...They are a mild, quiet, and timid people; perfectly harmlefs, honed, faithful ; and, though extremely phlegmatic, they are kind and affectionate to each other, and not incapable of ftrong attachment*. A Hottentot would ihare his lad morfel with hii companions. They have little of... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1802 - 404 pages
...timid people ; perfectly harmless, honest, faithful ; and, though extremely phlegmatic, they arekindand affectionate to each other, and not incapable of strong attachments. A Hottentot would share his last morsel with his companions. They have little of that kind of art or cunning that savages... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1807 - 410 pages
...with. Having placed the decrepid old man upon an ox, a great part of the inhabitants accompany a.id conduct him to a hut erected for the purpose, in some...into action. Their indolence is a real disease ; the iinly remedy of which is terror. Rather than have the trouble of procuring food by the chace, or of... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...They are a mild, quiet, and timid people ; perfectly harmless, honest, faithful; and, though extremely phlegmatic, they are kind and affectionate to each...incapable of strong attachments. A Hottentot would share his last morsel with his companions. They have little of that kind of art or cunning that savages... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - Anatomy, Comparative - 1819 - 646 pages
...are a mild, quiet, and timid people ; perfectly harmless, honest, faithful ; and, though extremely phlegmatic, they are kind and affectionate to each...incapable of strong attachments. A Hottentot would share his last morsel with his companions. They have little of that kind of art or cunning that savages... | |
 | 664 pages
...perfectly harmless, honest, and faithful ; and though extremely phleg223 Virtues of Savage Life. 224 malic, they are kind and affectionate to each other, and...incapable of strong attachments. A Hottentot •would share his last morsel with his companions. They have little of that art or cunning which savages usually... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...harmless, honest, and faithful j and though extremely phlcg223 Virtues of Savage Life. 224 roatic, they are kind and affectionate to each other, and...incapable of strong attachments. A Hottentot would share his last morsel with his companions. They have little of that art or cunning which savages usually... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...overcome. They are a mild, quiet, and timid people, honest and faithful ; and though very plegmatic, are kind and affectionate to each other, and not incapable of strong attachments. Their countenances generally wear the appearance of melancholy, rarely being relaxed into a smile.... | |
 | English poetry - 1823 - 804 pages
...universally formed of them, he represents them to be " naturally a mild, harmless, honest, faithful people ; kind and affectionate to each other, and not incapable of strong attachments." In particular, he speaks of " their gratitude for any favour that is done them ;" and adds " I never... | |
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They are a mild, quiet, and timid people; perfectly harmless, honest, faithful; and, though extremely phlegmatic, they are kind and affectionate to each other, and not incapable of strong attachments. A Hottentot would share his last morsel with his companions.... 
