The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals, in other respects, are superior to... Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 2071857Full view - About this book
| John McClintock - Bible - 1894 - 968 pages
...languor alnmt tlieir movements. Mr. .fudsoii in 1833 wrote of them as •• a meek, peaei-fnl race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues and few flagrant vices, greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy, indolent in tlieir habits, their morals in other... | |
| Frank Stockton Dobbins - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1897 - 802 pages
...Pacific Isles. CHAPTER XIX * THE KARENS AND THEIR TRADITIONS. The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, exiremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals,... | |
| Lewis Henry Morgan - Social Science - 1997 - 634 pages
...an interesting picture of this singular people " The Karens," she says, " are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals,... | |
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