 will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous fecundity, no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 6771927Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 622 pages
...neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom, or...sunshine: nor are the nations, here described, either void of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private and social virtues : here are no Hottentots... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 328 pages
...neighbouring inbabitants. The reader here will find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the natives here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Biography - 1846 - 566 pages
...neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blessed with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the natives here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social... | |
 | James Boswell, John Wilson Croker - 1851 - 940 pages
...and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable...fecundity; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing sunshine ; nor arc the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 466 pages
...neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will hero find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the natives here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private or social... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 468 pages
...inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irre. mediable barrenness or blessed with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the natives here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private or social... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 980 pages
...and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable...sense of humanity, or consummate in all private or socinl virtues. Here are no Hottentots without religious policy or articulate language ; no Chinese... | |
 | James Bruce - Egypt - 1860 - 436 pages
...tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable...all sense of humanity or consummate in all private and social virtues," etc. Bruce was able to retort upon Dr. Johnson with some effect, that the author... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 948 pages
...and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighlwuring inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blest with spoilt.nuiи.ч fecundity; no perpetual git om. or unceasing ••"<>• shine; nor are the nations... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - Braddock's Campaign, 1755 - 1867 - 286 pages
...follow the course of the Portuguese traveller, who says in the Preface to his travels.* "' The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable...humanity, or consummate in all private or social virtues. Here are no Hottentots without religious policy or articulate language ; no Chinese perfectly polite,... | |
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