 | 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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At length they were discovered, and a party of soldiers being sent, the whole were seized with the exception of one old woman, who, sooner than again be led into slavery, dashed herself to pieces from the summit of the mountain. In a Roman matron this... 
