 | Edmund Burke - 1774 - 606 Seiten
...human nature is here untainted with difeafe, is the great number of old men that we faw, many of who>n, by the lofs of their hair and teeth* appeared to be...decrepit, and though not equal to the young in mufcular flrength, were not a. whit behind them in cheerfuinefs and vivacity. The ingenuity of thefe people... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 1788 - 326 Seiten
...with difeafe in. New Zealand, is the great number of old men •with whom it abounds. Many of them , by the lofs of their hair and teeth , appeared to be very ancient, and yet none of them were decrepid. Although they were not equal to the young in xmifcular ftrength... | |
 | 1793 - 602 Seiten
...furgical art of the country. A farther proof that human пяture is here untainted with liiíeaíe. i« the great number of old men that we faw, many of whom,...not a whit behind them in cheerfulnefs and vivacity. The ingenuity of thefe people appears in nothing more than in their canoes ; they are long and narrow,... | |
 | 1803 - 598 Seiten
...here untainted with disease, is the great number of old men that we saw, many of whom, by the loss of their hair and teeth, appeared to be very ancient,...were decrepit, and though not equal to the young in muscular strength, were not a whit behind them in cheerfulness and vivacity. The ingenuity of these... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1839 - 564 Seiten
...here untainted with disease, is the great number of old men that we saw, many of whom, by the loss of their hair and teeth, appeared to be very ancient,...were decrepit; and though not equal to the young in muscular strength, were not a whit behind them in cheerfulness and vivacity."* The inhabitants of New... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1840 - 1078 Seiten
...here untainted with disease, is the great number of old men that we saw, many of whom, by the loss of their hair and teeth, appeared to be very ancient,...were decrepit ; and though not equal to the young in muscular strength, were not a whit behind them in cheerfulness and vivacity."* The inhabitants of New... | |
 | John Ward, New Zealand Company - 1840 - 408 Seiten
...here untainted with disease, is the great number of old men that we saw, many of whom, by the loss of their hair and teeth, appeared to be very ancient,...were decrepit; and though not equal to the young in muscular strength, were not a whit behind them in cheerfulness and vivacity." Unhappily, half a century... | |
 | William Swainson - 1840 - 92 Seiten
...nature is untainted with disease, is the great number of old men that we saw, many of whom, by the loss of their hair and teeth, appeared to be very ancient,...were decrepit ; and though not equal to the young in muscular strength, were not a whit behind them in cheerfulness and vivacity." Even in 1814 we find... | |
 | John Ward - 1840 - 192 Seiten
...here untainted with disease, is the great number of old men that we saw, many of whom, by the loss of their hair and teeth, appeared to be very ancient,...were decrepit; and though not equal to the young in muscular strength, were not a whit behind them in cheerfulness and vivacity." Unhappily, half a century... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 Seiten
...here untainted with disease, is the great number of old men that we saw, many of whom, by the loss of their hair and teeth, appeared to be very ancient,...were decrepit ; and though not equal to the young in muscular strength, were not a whit behind them in cheerfulness and vivacity. CHAPTKR X. — OF THE... | |
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A farther proof that human nature is here untainted with disease, is the great number of old men that we saw, many of whom, by the loss of their hair and teeth, appeared to be very ancient, yet none of them were decrepit, and though not equal to the young... 
