Californians," says P. Venegas, " as well as of all other Indians, are stupidity and insensibility ; want of knowledge and reflection; inconstancy, impetuosity, and blindness of appetite ; an excessive sloth, and abhorrence of all labour and fatigue... California the Golden - Stran 41avtor: Rockwell D. Hunt - 1911 - 362 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| William Robertson - 1825 - 490 strani
...description. " The characteristics of the Californians," says P. Venegas, " as well as of all other Indians, are stupidity and insensibility ; want of knowledge...appetite ; an excessive sloth, and abhorrence of all labour and fatigue ; an excessive love of pleasure and amusement of every kind, however trifling or... | |
| Alexander Forbes - 1839 - 402 strani
...contracted ideas, and weak, both in body and mind, as the unhappy Californians. Their characteristics are stupidity and insensibility ; want of knowledge...appetite ; an excessive sloth and abhorrence of all fatigue ; an incessant love of pleasure, and amusement of every kind, however trifling or brutal ;... | |
| Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, Jim Nisbet - 1855 - 860 strani
...contracted ideas, and weak both in body and mind, as the unhappy Californians. Their characteristics are stupidity and insensibility, want of knowledge...appetite, an excessive sloth, and abhorrence of all fatigues of every kind, however trifling or brutal ; in fine, a most wretched want of every thing which... | |
| 1856 - 996 strani
...appeared to him a shade lighter than that of a Mulatto, "Their characteristics," says Father Venegas, "arc stupidity and Insensibility; want of knowledge and...appetite; an excessive sloth, and abhorrence of all labour and fatigue; an incessant love of pleasure and amusement of every kind, however trifling or... | |
| Paolo Sioli - 1883 - 374 strani
...contracted ideas, and weak, both in body and mind, as the unhappy nations here. Their characteristics are stupidity and insensibility, want of knowledge...reflection, inconstancy, impetuosity and blindness in appetite. An excessive sloth and abhorrence of all fatigue, an incessant love of pleasure and amusement... | |
| John Brown, James Boyd - 1922 - 658 strani
...contracted ideas, and weak both in body and mind, as the unhappy Californians. Their characteristics are stupidity and insensibility, want of knowledge...reflection, inconstancy, impetuosity. and blindness to appetite; an excessive sloth and abhorrence of fatigue of every kind, however trifling; in fine,... | |
| John R. Stilgoe - 1982 - 454 strani
...Seneca snakeroot, and lion's heart, and that the Spanish Dominions truly needed American improvement: "The characteristics of the Californians are stupidity...appetite; an excessive sloth and abhorrence of all labour and fatigue; an excessive love of pleasure and amusement of every kind, however trifling or... | |
| James J. Rawls - 1986 - 312 strani
...the supernatural; but then, the whites asked, how could they when their chief characteristics were "stupidity and insensibility, want of knowledge and...reflection, inconstancy, impetuosity, and blindness of appetite"?87 The mortuary customs of the California Indians seemed an equally distasteful part of native... | |
| Ilya Zemtsov - 1989 - 624 strani
...the following information: The characteristics of the Califomians, as well as of all other Indians, are stupidity and insensibility; want of knowledge...appetite; an excessive sloth, and abhorrence of all labour and fatigue; an excessive love of pleasure and amusement of every kind; and, in frae, a most... | |
| Klaus Lubbers - 1994 - 332 strani
...the following information: The characteristics of the Califomians, as well as of all other Indians, are stupidity and insensibility; want of knowledge...appetite; an excessive sloth, and abhorrence of all labour and fatigue; an excessive love of pleasure and amusement of every kind; and, in fine, a most... | |
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