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" ... an inhuman and unfeeling peasantry, who, having discovered themselves to be removed to too great a distance from the seat of their former government to be awed by its authority, have exercised, in the most wanton and barbarous manner, an absolute... "
The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 346
1801
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The New annual register, or General repository of history ..., Volume 25

1805 - 948 pages
...men, and reduced them to their present degenerated condition, which is that of a languid, listless, phlegmatic people, in whom the 'prolific powers of nature seem to be almost exhausted. To this maybe added their extreme poverty, scantiness of food, and continual dejection of mind, arising from...
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An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 ...

Sir John Barrow - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1802 - 404 pages
...men, and reduced them to their present degenerated condition, which is that of a languid, listless, phlegmatic people, in whom the prolific powers of...themselves to be removed to too great a distance from the seat of their former government to be awed by its authority, have exercised, in the most wanton and...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 13

1801 - 432 pages
...men, and reduced them to their present degenerated condition, which is that of a languid, listless, phlegmatic people, in whom the prolific powers of...themselves to be removed to too great a distance, from the seat of their former government to be awed by its authority, have exercised, in the most wanton and...
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An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales, Volume 1

George Barrington - Canary Islands - 1810 - 512 pages
...languid, listless, phlegmatic people, in whom the fruitful powers of nature seem to be almost exhausted. Extreme poverty, scantiness of food, and continual...they receive from an inhuman and unfeeling peasantry, add to their miseries; and as their rulers have hitherto lived too far from the seat of government...
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A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the ..., Volume 3

R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...reduced them to their present degenerated condition, which is that of a languid, listless, phelgmatic people, in whom the prolific powers of nature seem to be almost exhausted. To this m*y be added their extreme poverty, scantiness of food, and continual dejection of mind, arising from...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, Volume 44

Arminianism - 1821 - 992 pages
...Hottentots, " Various causes have contributed to the depopulation of the'Hottentots, and none more so than their extreme poverty, scantiness of food, and continual...receive from an inhuman and unfeeling peasantry, who have discovered themselves to be removed to too great a distance from the seat of their former government,...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 3

1836 - 496 pages
...imagines may have contributed to the depopulation of the Hottentots, Mr. Barrow proceeds : — " To these may be added their extreme poverty, scantiness of...mind, arising from the cruel treatment they receive. " There is scarcely an instance of cruelty said to have been committed against the slaves in the West...
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The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 3

1843 - 488 pages
...imagines may have contributed to the depopulation of the Hottentots, Mr. Barrow proceeds : — " To these may be added their extreme poverty, scantiness of...mind, arising from the cruel treatment they receive. " There is scarcely an instance of cruelty said to have been committed against the slaves in the West...
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The History of Human Marriage, Volume 44; Volume 526

Edward Westermarck - Social Science - 1894 - 678 pages
...men, and reduced them to their present degenerated condition, which is that of a languid, listless, phlegmatic people, in whom the prolific powers of nature seem to be almost exhausted." Few of the women have more than two or three children, and many 1 v. Martius, loc. cit. vol. ip 334....
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Primitive Love and Love-stories

Henry Theophilus Finck - Love - 1899 - 888 pages
...men, and reduced them to their present degenerated condition, which is that of a languid, listless, phlegmatic people, in whom the prolific powers of nature seem to be almost exhausted." It does not, therefore, surprise us to be told (by Thunberg) that "it frequently happens that a woman...
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