 Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy...  The Hermes; a literary, moral and scientific journal - Page 96Full view - About this book
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1799 - 524 pages
...to perform a generous action. In so free, and so " kind a manner did they contribute to my relief; that if I " was dry, I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I eat " the coarsest morsel with a double relish." It is surely reasonable to suppose, that the soft... | |
 | 1801 - 432 pages
...tver been friendly to me, and uniformly so : and to add to this virtue, (so worthy the appellation ot benevolence), these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if J was dry I drank the sweetest draught, and, if hungry, I eat the coarse morsel with a double relish."... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 500 pages
...or sick, the women have ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and kind a manner, that if I was thirsty, I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry I ate the coarsest... | |
 | Henry Smithers - Poetry, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...wet, or sick, the women have ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so; and to add to this virtue, so worthy the appellation of benevolence, these actions...performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was thirsty I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.1'... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1807 - 594 pages
...to perform a generous action. In so " free, and so kind a manner did they conK tribute to my relief; that if I was dry, " I drank the sweetest draught, and if hun" gry , I eat the coarsest morsel with a double " relish." It is surely reasonable to suppose, that... | |
 | John Stewart - Jamaica - 1808 - 330 pages
...been friendly to me ; and to add to this virtue (so worthy of the appellation of benevolence) their actions have been performed in so free, and so kind...dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and, if hungry, I eat the coarsest morsel with a double relish." But although there are few females that are more susceptible... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Africa - 1808 - 402 pages
...men, to perform a generous action. In so free and so kind a manner did they contribute to my relief, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ale the coarsest morsel with a double relish." As the negroes have no written language of their own,... | |
 | William Giles - Marriage - 1811 - 268 pages
...wet, or sick, the women have ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so. And to add to this virtue (so worthy the appellation of benevolence), these actions have been performed •in so free and kind a manner, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught ; and if hungry, I eat the coarsest... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...wet, or sick, the women have ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so; and to add to this virtue, so worthy the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and kind a manner, that if I was thirsty, I drank th» sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarsest... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Education - 1813 - 556 pages
...to add to this virtue (so worthy the appellation of benevolence,) these actions have been VOL. I. T performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if...drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarse morsel with a double relish." (H)p. 178. On tfce subject of self-command, proceeding from tlio... | |
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