American plantations, who can forbear admiring their fidelity, though it expresses itself in so dreadful a manner ? What might not that savage greatness of soul which appears in these poor wretches on many occasions, be raised to, were it rightly cultivated... The British Essayists: The Spectator - Strana 102podľa Alexander Chalmers - 1802Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - Počet stránok 420
...courage exerting itself in fierceness, resolution in obstinacy, wisdom in cunning, patience in sullenness and despair. Men's passions operate variously, and...subject, I cannot forbear mentioning a story which I have lately heard, and which is so well attested, that I have no manner of reason to suspect the... | |
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