 | 1846 - 602 sider
...exertion, which the picture, however powerfully delineated, can never produce. Poor, poor Dy aks ! exposed to starvation, slavery, death ; you may well...and yearly scarcity, is far nobler : and if, in the endeavor to do so, one poor life is sacrificed, how little is that in the vast amount of human existence... | |
 | Sir Henry Keppel, Sir James Brooke, James (Rajah of Sarawak) - 1846 - 398 sider
...yet it was the cold feeling dictated by reason and humanity ; but now, having 270 THE OLD CONDITION. witnessed the miseries of a race superior to either,...slavery, to protect these tribes from pillage and A FALSE ALARM. 271 yearly scarcity, is far nobler ; and if, in the endeavour to do so, one poor life... | |
 | Sir Henry Keppel - 1846 - 864 sider
...and probably between individuals, there is no greater distinction than in this tender sympathy toward distress. Poor, poor Dyaks ! exposed to starvation,...and yearly scarcity, is far nobler ; and if, in the endeavor to do so, one poor life is sacrificed, how little is it in the vast amount of human existence!... | |
 | 1846 - 556 sider
...' will raise us to exertion, which the picture, however power' fully delineated, can never produce. Poor, poor Dyaks ! exposed ' to starvation, slavery,...suffering, to ameliorate all the ills of slavery, to ' protecl these tribes from pillage and yearly scarcity, is far ' nobler ; and if, in the endeavour... | |
 | 1846 - 610 sider
...misery will raise us to exertion, which the picture, however powerfully delineated, can never produce. Poor, poor Dyaks ! exposed to starvation, slavery...witnessing your sufferings ! To save men from death has ils merit ; but to alleviate suffering, to ameliorate all t he ills of slavery, to protect these tribes... | |
 | 1852 - 1190 sider
...may well raise the warmest feelings of eompassion — enthusiasm awakes at the sight of yonr woes ! To save men from death has its merit : but to alleviate...suffering, to ameliorate all the ills of slavery, to proteet these tribes from pillage and yearly seareity, is far nobler; and if, in the endeavour, one... | |
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... distress. Poor, poor Dyaks ! exposed to starvation, slavery, death ! you may well raise the warmest feelings of compassion — enthusiasm awakes at witnessing your sufferings ! To save men from death has its merit ; but to alleviate suffering, to... 