 | Henry Southgate - 1865 - 398 pages
...than the men ; that wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings ; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like man, to perform an hospitable or generous action ; not haughty or arrogant,... | |
 | 418 pages
...than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like man, to perform a hospitable or generous action ; not haughty, nor arrogant,... | |
 | George Richard Jesse - 1866 - 466 pages
...than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings ; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like man, to perform a hospitable or generous action ; not haughty, nor arrogant,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...than the men ; that, wherever found, they nrc the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest They do not hesitate, like man, to perform a hospitable or generous action : not haughty, nor arrogant.... | |
 | Jefferson B. Fancher - 1868 - 404 pages
...observer of manners, " that women in all countries are civil, obliging, tender, and humane ; that they are inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest...perform a generous action. Not haughty, not arrogant, nor supercilious, they arc full of courtesy, and fond of society ; more liable, in general, to err... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1868 - 178 pages
...eents. " I have always," says Ledyard, " remarked that women in all countries are civil ai4 obliging ; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and mtldest ; and that they do not hesitate, like men, to perform a generous action." * If tbou art a child,... | |
 | William Anderson (D.D.) - 1870 - 392 pages
...than the men ; that whereever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings ; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest." The adventurous traveller further remarks, " I never addressed myself in the language of decency and... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 672 pages
...than the men; that wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate like a man, to perform any hospitable or generous action; not haughty or arrogant,... | |
 | Horace Lorenzo Hastings - 1882 - 392 pages
...than the men ; that wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings ; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like man, to perform a hospitable, generous action ; are not haughty, nor arrogant,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - 346 pages
...then pulling up this second creature, and suspending him by the barb in his stomach. —Sidney Smith. to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest, and that...they do not hesitate, like men, to perform a generous action.—Ledyard. (16) 'Tis the last rose of summer. It has been re-observed on every subsequent revolution,—... | |
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I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They... 
