 | 1857 - Страниц: 692
...and also I think at Goodrich Court. Darwin, in his Naturalists Voyage, writing in 1836, says : — " Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady,...screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves." With regard to the wooden engine preserved at Littlecote, not Neltlecote Hall, which I described in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1879 - Страниц: 254
...pitiable moans, and could not but BRAZIL. suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I...to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have PERNAMBL'CO. stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten,... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - Страниц: 228
...pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child, even to remonstrate....boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - Страниц: 628
...pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I...boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - Страниц: 542
...pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I...to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have staid in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted... | |
 | 1883 - Страниц: 800
...pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was oeing tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I...little boy six or seven years old struck thrice with a horsewhip, before I could interfere, on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not quite... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - Страниц: 542
...pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I...to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have staid in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - Страниц: 564
...pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I...boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not... | |
 | 1909 - Страниц: 574
...pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I...boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1926 - Страниц: 356
...poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. . . . Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady,...enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal.' I(S As a result of these experiences and many others, Darwin imbibed a detestation of slavery and slaveholders... | |
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Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit... 
