Natural History of the Negro Race, Volumen1D. J. Dowling, 1837 - 162 páginas |
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... of the Colonies . The Negroes , or Mandingoes , are husbandmen ; a part of them are gov- erned by kings ; others form aristocratic republics ; they are divided into small tribes , and do not possess any NEGROES , OR BLACKS . 3 eo.
... of the Colonies . The Negroes , or Mandingoes , are husbandmen ; a part of them are gov- erned by kings ; others form aristocratic republics ; they are divided into small tribes , and do not possess any NEGROES , OR BLACKS . 3 eo.
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Julien-Joseph Virey. divided into small tribes , and do not possess any knowledge of literature ; on the contrary , the Moors , like the Bedouins , have no particular mode of life ; they profess the Mahom- etan religion , and are very ...
Julien-Joseph Virey. divided into small tribes , and do not possess any knowledge of literature ; on the contrary , the Moors , like the Bedouins , have no particular mode of life ; they profess the Mahom- etan religion , and are very ...
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... possess a very acute ear and smell . Their religion consists in a worship of idols . The women till the ground , and although debarred from public deliberations , they are often consulted by their husbands . The husband alone is not ...
... possess a very acute ear and smell . Their religion consists in a worship of idols . The women till the ground , and although debarred from public deliberations , they are often consulted by their husbands . The husband alone is not ...
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... possess any particular information about a red nation inhabiting the interior of Africa , and from which sprung , as it is believed , the ancient Guanches , those happy inhabitants of the Canary Islands , before they were con- quered ...
... possess any particular information about a red nation inhabiting the interior of Africa , and from which sprung , as it is believed , the ancient Guanches , those happy inhabitants of the Canary Islands , before they were con- quered ...
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... possess activity , and his fibres mo- bility . He lives only by sensations . Every one knows that they have a piercing sight , an acute smell , * very del- icate ears for music ; a sensual taste , and that almost all of them are ...
... possess activity , and his fibres mo- bility . He lives only by sensations . Every one knows that they have a piercing sight , an acute smell , * very del- icate ears for music ; a sensual taste , and that almost all of them are ...
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Página 31 - They secrete less by the kidneys, and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odor.
Página 31 - Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.
Página 32 - Most of them indeed have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed themselves of the conversation of their masters; many have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries where the arts and sciences are cultivated to a considerable degree, and have had before their eyes samples...
Página 124 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Página 31 - They are more ardent after their female; but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient.
Página 30 - And is this difference of no importance ? Is it not the foundation of a greater or less share of beauty in the two races? Are not the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of color in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony which reigns in the countenances, that immovable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race...
Página 32 - The Indians, with no advantages of the kind, will often carve figures on their pipes, not destitute of design and merit. They will crayon out an animal, a plant, or a country, so as to prove the existence of a germ in their minds, which only wants cultivation.
Página xiii - Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens to set out our own sterile plots. Castrant olios ut libros suos per se graciles alieno adipe suffarciant (so "Jovius inveighs.) They lard their lean books with the fat of others
Página 32 - In music they are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for tune and time...
Página 31 - They are at least as brave, and more adventuresome. But this may perhaps proceed from a want of forethought which prevents their seeing a danger till it be present.