 ... and watermen, few of whom failed of paying their compliments to me by all manner of insults and jests on my misery. No man who knew me will think I conceived any personal resentment at this behaviour; but it was a lively picture of that cruelty and...  London Magazine Enlarged and Improved - Page 431755Full view - About this book
 | Henry Fielding - Atlantic Ocean - 1755 - 260 pages
...behaviour ; but it was a lively picture of that cruelty and inhumanity, in the nature of men, which I have often contemplated with concern ; and which leads...uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts.. It may be faid, that this barbarous curtom is peculiar to the Englifh, and of them only to the loweft degree ; that... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...behaviour; but it was a lively picture of that cruelty and inhumanity, in the nature of men, which I have often contemplated with concern, ; and which...very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts. It may be ' said, that this barbarous custom is peculiar to the English, and of them only to the lowest degree;... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 400 pages
...that cruelty and inhumanity, in the nature of men, which I have often contemplated with co»cern ; and which leads the mind into a train of very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts. It may be said, that this barbarous custom is peculiar to the English, and of them only to the lowest degree... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...bchaviour; but it was a lively picture of that eruelty and inhumanity in the nature of men which I have often contemplated with concern, and which leads...train of very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts." The sea-captain, into whose custody the illfated novelist was committed, was not the most attractive... | |
 | Civilization - 1846 - 506 pages
...behaviour ; but it was a lively picture of that cruelty and inhumanity in the nature of men which I have often contemplated with concern, and which leads...very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts. It may be said that this barbarous custom is peculiar to the English, and of them only to the lowest degree ;... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...behaviour ; but it was a lively picture of that cruelty and inhumanity in the nature of men which I have often contemplated with concern, and which leads...very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts. It may be said that this barbarous custom is peculiar to the English, and of them only to the lowest degree ;... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - Authors, English - 1855 - 398 pages
...behaviour ; but it was a lively picture of that cruelty and inhumanity in the nature of men which I have often contemplated with concern, and which leads...train of very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts." The sea-captain, into whose custody the novelist was committed, was a curious specimen of that well-known... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Authors, English - 1858 - 434 pages
...behaviour ; but it was a lively picture of that cruelty and inhumanity in the nature of men which I have often contemplated with concern, and which leads...train of very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts." Every one should read his narrative of his voyage to Lisbon. It contains no line that would bo better... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 448 pages
...behaviour ; but it was a lively picture of that cruelty and inhumanity, in the nature of men, which I have often contemplated with concern, and which leads...very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts. It may be said, that this barbarous custom is peculiar to the English, and of them only to the lowest degree... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 442 pages
...behaviour ; but it was a lively picture of that cruelty and inhumanity, in the nature of men, which I have often contemplated with concern, and which leads...very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts. It may be said, that this barbarous custom is peculiar to the English, and of them only to the lowest degree... | |
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