 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 231 pages
...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... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 231 pages
...compassionate ; and I can truly say, as Mr. Jjedyard has eloquently said before me — " To a woman I never addressed myself in the language of 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... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 732 pages
...is rent. Till thou canst feel thy hosom glow, And say, " My Saviour, I repent !" WOMAN: " To a woman bree 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... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1839 - 104 pages
...form a generous action. Not haughty, not arrogant, not supercilious. To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of...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... | |
 | John Hayward - 1839 - 508 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... | |
 | John Hayward - 1839 - 512 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... | |
 | 1839 - 408 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...plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the widely spread regions of the... | |
 | John Mather Austin - 1839 - 424 pages
...general more 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...friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840
...— JEFFREY.] WOMAN! MR. I.EDYAKD, AS QUOTED BY MUHOO FARJCE IS HIS TRAVEL! INTO AFRICA " 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 Men, to " perform a generous... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 288 pages
...more good actions than he. To a woman,, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself ifi-~ the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has been often otherwise. In wandering through the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark ; through honest... | |
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