 | Joseph Banks - 1896 - 546 Seiten
...the most important people. Some of them were much larger than this which I have here described. Iu the article of food these happy people may almost...FOOD 135 their brow, when their chief sustenance, hread-fruit, is procured with no more trouble than that of climbing a tree and pulling it down. Not... | |
 | Arthur Kitson - 1907 - 596 Seiten
...the happy natives. These people may be said to be exempted from the curse of our forefathers. Scarce can it be said that they earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. Benevolent nature hath not only provided them with necessaries, but many of the luxuries... | |
 | Maggs Bros - 1915 - 942 Seiten
...these seas. . . . " THESE PEOPLE MA Y BE SAID TO TIE EXEMPTED FROM THE CURSE OF OUR FOREFATHERS. Scarce can it be said that they earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. Benevolent nature hath not only provided them with necessaries, but many of the luxuries... | |
 | Brian M. Fagan - 1998 - 340 Seiten
...trees that flourished on the coastal lowlands and provided plentiful shade. "These happy people can almost be said to be exempt from the curse of our forefathers; scarcely can it be said they earn their bread with the sweat of their brow when their chiefest sustenance Bread fruit is procured... | |
 | Alan Frost - 1999 - 244 Seiten
...spontaniously produces or at least they are rais'd with very little labour, in the article of food these people may almost be said to be exempt from the curse of our fore fathers; scarcely can it be said that they earn their bread with the sweet of their brow, benevolent... | |
 | Douglas L. Oliver - 2002 - 326 Seiten
...Banks in Tahiti in 1769, while with Captain Cook on the latter's first voyage to the Pacific. In [this] article of food these happy people may almost be said...scarcely can it be said that they earn their bread with the sweat of their brow when their chiefest sustenance Bread fruit is procured with no more trouble... | |
 | Friedrich Wolfzettel - 2003 - 496 Seiten
...spontaniously produces or at least they are rais'd with very little labour. in the article of food these people may almost be said to be exempt from the curse of our fore fathers: [...] benevolent nature hath not only supply'd them with necessarys but with abundance... | |
 | Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson - 2004 - 354 Seiten
...from the biblical injunction that man should work for his bread. 'These happy people', Banks wrote, 'may almost be said to be exempt from the curse of our forefather; scarcely can it be said that they earn their bread with the sweat of their brow when their... | |
 | Jill H. Casid - 2005 - 326 Seiten
...life escaping both history (the "curse of our forefathers") and labor ("the sweat of their brow"): "In the article of food these happy people may almost...scarcely can it be said that they earn their bread with the sweat of their brow when their chiefest substance, Breadfruit, is procur'd with no more trouble... | |
 | Richard Michael Connaughton - 2005 - 316 Seiten
...aromatic roots of the Polynesian shrub piper methysticum. During his first visit, Cook observed: 'These people may almost be said to be exempt from the curse...scarcely can it be said that they earn their bread with the sweat of their brow, benevolent nature has not only supplied them with necessaries but with... | |
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In the article of food these happy people may almost be said to be exempt from the curse of our forefathers; scarcely can it be said that they earn their bread by the sweat of their brow... 
