 ... sailors 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...  Knight's Penny Magazine - Page 171846Full view - About this book
 | English essays - 1755 - 716 pages
...behaviour ; but it was a lively picture of tliat cruelty and inhumanity, in the nature of nien, which ' 1 have often contemplated with concern ; ; and which...uncomfortable and melancholy ' thoughts. It may be faid, tint this barbarous cuftom is peculiar to the Englifh, „ and of them only to tho lowed degree... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...the lowest degree; that it is an excrescence of an uncontrouled licen- . tiousness mistaken for liberty, and never shews it-' self in men who are polished... | |
 | 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...the lowest degree ; that it is an excrescence of an uncontrouled licentiousness, mistaken for liberty, and never shows itself in men, who are polished... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...this 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...train of very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts." The sea-captain, into whose custody the illfated novelist was committed, was not the most attractive... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...this 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...itself in men who are polished and refined in such a manner as human nature requires to produce that perfection of which it is susceptible, and to purge... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...this 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...mistaken for liberty, and never shows itself in men who arc polished and refined in such a manner as human nature requires to produce that perfection of which... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Authors, English - 1858 - 426 pages
...this 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...train of very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts." Every one should read his narrative of his voyage to Lisbon. It contains no line that would be better... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 pages
...this 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...train of very uncomfortable and melancholy thoughts." Even in his diseased bodily condition how thoroughly sane and generous are his remarks. He had a long... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Atlantic Ocean - 1892 - 320 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...the lowest degree ; that it is an excrescence of an uncontroul'd licentiousness mistaken for liberty, and never shews itself in men who are polish'd and... | |
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