 | 1806 - 462 pages
...about in the field. They go out every morning, and when they return in the evening, an old sheep's skin to lie upon, and a little milk or piece of meat,...frequently forsake their aged relations, when removing rVom place to place for the sake of hunting. In this case they leave the old person with a piece of... | |
 | 1842 - 750 pages
...children cease to be the objects of a mother's care as soon as they are able to crawl about in the field. In some few instances, however, you meet with a spark...which places them on a level with the brute creation.' Oh the miseries to which human nature is heir ! Hard is the Bushman's lot, friendless, forsaken, an... | |
 | Robert Moffat - 1842 - 686 pages
...children cease to be the objects of a mother's care as soon as they are able to crawl about in the field. In some few instances, however, you meet with a spark...which places them on a level with the brute creation." Oh the miseries to which human nature is heir ! Hard is the Bushman's lot, friendless, forsaken, an... | |
 | Robert Moffat - 1843 - 418 pages
...be the objects of a mother's care as soon as they are able to crawl about in the field. In some lew instances, however, you meet with a spark of natural...which places them on a level with the brute creation." Oh the miseries to which human nature is heir ! Hard is the Bushman's lot, friendless, forsaken, an... | |
 | Robert Moffat - 1846 - 312 pages
...children cease to be the objects of a mother's care as soon as they are able to crawl about in the field. In some few instances, however, you meet with a spark...which places them on a level with the brute creation." Oh the miseries to which human nature is heir! Hard is the Bushman's lot. Friendless, forsaken, an... | |
 | Ebenezer Prout - 1846 - 544 pages
...children cease to be the objects of a mother's care as soon as they are able to crawl about in the field. In some few instances, however, you meet with a spark...which places them on a level with the brute creation." Oh, the miseries to which human nature is heir! Hard is the Irishman's lot, friendless, forsaken, an... | |
 | 1847 - 60 pages
...tol>e the objecta of a mother's care oa soon aa they are able to crawl about in the fields. In somefew instances, however, you meet with a spark of natural...which places them on a level with the brute creation." Ob, the miseries to which human nature is heir ! Hard is the Bushman's lot ; friendless, forlorn, an... | |
 | Harvey Newcomb - 1854 - 874 pages
...mother's care, as soon as they are able to crawl about the field. In some few instances, however, we meet with a spark of natural affection, which places them on a level with the brute creation. The Bushman knows no God, no eternity, yet dreads death. He worships at no shrine has no religion. We can... | |
 | Francis Patrick Flemyng - 1856 - 558 pages
...children cease to be the objects of a mother's care, as soon as they are able to crawl about in the field. In some few instances, however, you meet with a spark...which places them on a level with the brute creation." These creatures are altogether the slaves of passion ; and even the females seem as barbarous as the... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 448 pages
...children cease to be the objects of a mother's care as soon as they are able to crawl about in the field. In some few instances, however, you meet with a spark...places them on a level with the brute creation." The ethnologist can discover clear and distinctive characteristies in the Australian aboriginal people... | |
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... of parents throwing their tender offspring to the hungry lion, who stands roaring before their cavern, refusing to depart till some peace-offering be made to him. In general their children cease to be the objects of a mother's care as soon as they... 
