 | Lydia Maria Child - 1833 - 232 pages
...and compassionate; and I can truly say, as Mr Ledyard has eloquently said before me — 'To a woman, I never addressed myself in the language of decency...friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. If I was hungry, or thirsty, wet, or ill, they did not hesitate, like the men, to perform a generous... | |
 | 1817
...more virtuous, and performing more good actions than he. To a woman, whether civilized or savage, 1 never addressed myself in the language of decency...it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barrea plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834
...addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With...plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide spread regions of the... | |
 | 1834
...than once owed his life to the kindness of women. " In wandering," he says, in his journal, " over the plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden,...rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and UK: »wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar ; if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, the women have... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1835 - 306 pages
...compassionate ; and I can truly say, as my predecessor, Mr. Ledyard, has said before me : ' To a woman I never addressed myself in the language of decency...friendship without receiving a decent and friendly answer. If I was hungry or thirsty, wet, or sick, they did not hesitate, like the men, to perform a generous... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1836 - 560 pages
...general also more virtuous, and performing more good actions, than he. To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of...without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With roan it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through... | |
 | 1837 - 560 pages
...general also more virtuous, and performing more good actions, than he. To a woman , whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself, in the language...and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide spread regions of the wandering Tartar ; if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, the women have ever... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 328 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...otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of in hospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 328 pages
...general also more virtuous, and performing more good actionsthan he. To a woman, whethercivilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of...friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wancleringovcr the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1837
...women in all countries are civil and obliging, tender and humane. — To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of...friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer." In man undoubtedly there is more hardihood of character ; and the benevolent affections are less lively.... | |
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