| Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 244 pages
...I found them uniformly kind and compassionate ; and I can truly say, as Mr. Ledyard has eloquently said before me — " To a woman I never addressed...friendly answer. If I was hungry or thirsty, wet or ill, they did not hesitate, like the men, to perform a generous action. In so free and so kind a manner... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 716 pages
...I found them uniformly kind and compassionate ; and I can truly say, as Mr. Jjedyard has eloquently said before me — " To a woman I never addressed...decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and f.iendly answer. If I was hungry or thirsty, wet or ill, they did not hesitate, like the men, to perform... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 pages
...also more virtuous, and performing more good actionsthan he. To a woman, whethercivilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency...friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wancleringovcr the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark,... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1837 - 510 pages
...all countries are civil and obliging, tender and humane. — To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency...friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer." In man undoubtedly there is more hardihood of character ; and the benevolent affections are less lively.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 pages
...more virtuous, and performing more good nctionsthan he. To a woman, whether civilized or savage, 1 never addressed myself in the language of decency...friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of in hospitable Denmark,... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pages
...thine heart is rent. Till thou canst feel thy hosom glow, And say, " My Saviour, I repent !" WOMAN: " alta. For tbree hundred years, There, unapproach'd but from the deep, they dwelt ) Assail'd for ev de cent and friendly answer. If I was hungry or tliirsly, wet or sick, they did not hesitate, like... | |
| John Hayward - 1839 - 526 pages
...more virtuous, and performing more good actions, than he. To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself, in the language of decency...friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark,... | |
| John Mather Austin - 1839 - 496 pages
...virtuous than man, and perform more good actions than he. To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency...friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland,... | |
| John Hayward - 1839 - 542 pages
...more virtuous, and performing more good- actions, than he. To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself, in the language of decency...friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark,... | |
| Thomas Branagan, Julius Rubens Ames - 1839 - 404 pages
...generous action. Not haughty, not arrogant, not supercilious. To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency...friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark,... | |
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