will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous fecundity, no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social... Blackwood's Magazine - Side 6771927Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1909 - 658 sider
...Johnson commended Father Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia because the eastern people described in it were not "either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private and social virtues; here are no Hottentots without religion, polity, or articulate language; no Chinese... | |
| George S. Jackson, Jacks - 1993 - 340 sider
...follow the course of the Portuguese traveller, who says in the Preface to his travels.* "' The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable...humanity, or consummate in all private or social virtues. Here are no Hottentots without religious policy or articulate language ; no Chinese perfectly polite,... | |
| James Boswell - 1928 - 670 sider
...tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. "The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable...humanity, or consummate in all private or social virtues. Here are no Hottentots without religious policy or articulate language; no Chinese perfectly polite,... | |
| James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 sider
...inhabitants. ‘The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom, or...humanity, or consummate in all private or social virtues. Here are no Hottentots without religious polity or articulate language; no Chinese perfectly polite,... | |
| Father Jerome Lobo - 2005 - 197 sider
...neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity, no perpetual gloom or...all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private and social virtues; here are no Hottentots without religion, polity, or articulate language, no Chinese... | |
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