His depravity is the greatest ; intrigue fills up all the moments not devoted to intoxication."* Speke has just about the same sort of story to tell. Nakedness, nastiness, and immorality... The Principles of Sociology - Seite 782von Herbert Spencer - 1877Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1859 - 692 Seiten
...1 " — mother ! mother ! — is a common exclamation in fear or wonder. When childhood is passed, the father and son become natural enemies, after the manner of wild beasts. Yet they are a sociable race, and the sudden loss of relatives- sometimes leads from grief to hypochondria... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1860 - 596 Seiten
...mama!" — mother! mother! — is a common exclamation in fear or wonder. When childhood is passed, the father and son become natural enemies, after the manner of wild beasts. Yet they are a sociable race, and the sudden loss of relatives sometimes leads from grief to hypochondria... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 Seiten
...Trübner & Co. ther ! mother !" is a common exclamation in fear or wonder. When childhood is •passed, the father and son become natural enemies after the manner of wild beasts. We can not help suspecting the accuracy of Captain Burton's observation on this point ; the more so,... | |
| Lindley Spring - 1868 - 250 Seiten
...— When childhood is passed, * Travels and Researches, p. 329. t Expedition to the Zambesi, p. 130. the father and son become natural enemies, after the manner of wild beasts. — In morality, according to the more extended sense of that word, the Eastern African is markedly... | |
| Lindley Spring - 1868 - 256 Seiten
...unlimited.—When childhood is passed, * Travels and Researches, p. 329. t Expedition to the Zambesi, p. 130. the father and son become natural enemies, after the manner of wild beasts.—In morality, according to the more extended sense of that word, the Eastern African is markedly... | |
| 1877 - 822 Seiten
...are early left to provide for themselves, or in which, as among Bushmen, fathers and sons quarreling try to kill one another, or in which, as Burton says...factor which, feeble where the family is rudimentary and gaining strength as the family develops, serves in another way to lessen the sacrifice of (.he... | |
| 1880 - 576 Seiten
..."When he is grown up he forgets his parents, as the animals do, or rather, to quote Captain Burton, ' the father and son become natural enemies, after the manner of wild beasts.' Unlike the Asiatics, the Africans have no idea of making the elephant serviceable ; they care only... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1892 - 306 Seiten
...begotten." Some old-world races supply kindred illustrations. Of the East Africans, Burton says : — " When childhood is past, the father and son become natural enemies, after the manner of wild beasts." So, too, when, writing about the Bedouin character, and commenting on " the daily quarrels between... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1892 - 594 Seiten
...affectionate friendship. Concerning the East Africans Burton writes : — " When childhood is passed, the father and son become natural enemies, after the manner of wild beasts. Yet they are a sociable race, and the sudden loss of relatives sometimes leads from grief to hypochondria... | |
| Lady Isabel Burton - 1893 - 730 Seiten
...— ' Mother ! mother ! ' — is a common exclamation in fear or wonder. When childhood is passed, the father and son become natural enemies, after the manner of wild beasts. Yet they are a sociable race, and the sudden loss of relatives sometimes, but rarely, leads from grief... | |
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