| Charles Darwin - 1896 - Страниц: 542
...a little ground near the top, con trived to eke out a subsistence. At length they were discovered, and a party of soldiers being sent, the whole were...who, sooner than again be led into slavery, dashed herse.f to pieces from the summit of the numnja\n. In a Roman matron this would have been called thenobk1... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1908 - Страниц: 542
...cultivating a little ground near the top, contrived to eke out a subsistence. At length they were discovered, and a party of soldiers being sent, the whole were...slavery, dashed herself to pieces from the summit i/di the mountain. /In a Roman matron this would have been called the noble love of freedom : in a... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1909 - Страниц: 564
...cultivating a little ground near the top, contrived to eke out a subsistence. At length they were discovered, and a party of soldiers being sent, the whole were...freedom : in a poor negress it is mere brutal obstinacy. We continued riding for some hours. For the few last miles the road was intricate, and it passed through... | |
| 1909 - Страниц: 574
...cultivating a little ground near the top, contrived to eke out a subsistence. At length they were discovered, and a party of soldiers being sent, the whole were...freedom : in a poor negress it is mere brutal obstinacy. We continued riding for some hours. For the few last miles the road was intricate, and it passed through... | |
| George Amos Dorsey - 1928 - Страниц: 326
...Negro woman in a party of runaway slaves, sooner than be captured by the soldiers to be returned to slavery, dashed herself to pieces from the summit...freedom: in a poor negress it is mere brutal obstinacy." He was crossing a ferry with an uncommonly stupid Negro. To make him better understand, he talked in... | |
| Juan José Parodiz - 1981 - Страниц: 164
...death from the hilltop rather than to return to slavery. "In a Roman matron this would have been called love of freedom; in a poor negress it is mere brutal obstinacy." Next day they dined on the verandah of a poor venda (inn); the interior was plastered but it had neither... | |
| William Dean Howells - 1984 - Страниц: 508
...cultivating a little ground near the top, contrived to eke out a subsistence. At length they were discovered, and a party of soldiers being sent, the whole were...freedom: in a poor negress it is mere brutal obstinacy. We continued riding for some hours. For the few last miles the road was intricate, and it passed through... | |
| Timothy Lenoir - 1998 - Страниц: 484
...always implicit in description: "a party of soldiers being sent" to recapture a group of runaway slaves, "the whole were seized with the exception of one old...love of freedom: in a poor negress it is mere brutal obstinacy."27 That insight came readily enough, it could be argued, to one raised in a family traditionally... | |
| William E. Phipps - 2002 - Страниц: 234
...recapture. He told of a woman who jumped from a mountain ledge to evade being returned to her master: "In a Roman matron this would have been called the...love of freedom: in a poor negress it is mere brutal obstinancy."45 The slave brutality that Darwin witnessed in Brazil prompted an outcry, exposing the... | |
| Helen Small, Trudi Tate - 2003 - Страниц: 274
...African rather than a Native American) in describing the suicide of an escaped slave near Rio de Janeiro: 'In a Roman matron this would have been called the...freedom: in a poor negress it is mere brutal obstinacy' (ibid. 59). After witnessing at first hand General Rosas' brutal campaign of genocide on the Pampas,... | |
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