... not possible for me to behold the wonderful fertility of the soil, the vast herds of cattle, proper both for labour and food, and a variety of other circumstances favourable to colonization and agriculture ; and reflect, withal, on the means which... Report of the Directors ... - Página 40por Africa Institution, London - 1807Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Mungo Park - 1807 - 594 páginas
...agriculture ; and reflect, withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation, without lamenting that a country, so abundantly gifted...Much more did I lament, that a people of manners and disposition so gentle and benevolent, should either be left as they now are, immersed in the gross... | |
| William Wilberforce - 1807 - 412 páginas
...agriculture; and reflect withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vaft inland navigation, without lamenting that a country, so abundantly gifted...should remain in its present savage and neglected ftate. Much more did I lament that a people, of manners and dispositions so gentle and benevolent,... | |
| African Institution (London, England) - 1807 - 266 páginas
...agriculture; and reflect• withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation ; without lamenting, that a country, so abundantly gifted...by nature., should remain in its present savage and ne• glected state. Much more did I lament, that a people, of manners and disptwlions so gentle and... | |
| African Institution (London, England). - 1807 - 644 páginas
...agriculture; and reflect, withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation; without lamenting, that a country, so, abundantly gifted and favoured by nature, 40 should remain in its present savage and ne» glecled state. Much more did I lament, that a people,... | |
| Mungo Park - 1816 - 576 páginas
...agriculture ; and reflect, withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation, •without lamenting that a country, so abundantly...Much more did I lament, that a people of manners and disposition so gentle and benevolent, should, either be left as they now are, immersed in the gross... | |
| Mungo Park - 1816 - 520 páginas
...agriculture ; and reflect, withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation, without lamenting that a country, so abundantly gifted...Much more did I lament, that A people of manners and disposition so gentle and benevolent, should either be left as they now are, immersed in the gross... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 páginas
...formidable encroachment, which the present article has already made on our accustomed limits, compels us to present savage and neglected state. Much more did I lament, that a people of manners so gentle aud benevolent should either be left a» they now are, immersed in the gross and uncomfortable... | |
| 1837 - 684 páginas
...agriculture, and reflect withal on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation, without lamenting that a country so abundantly gifted...remain in its present savage and neglected state." Park, vol. I. p. 303. The mineral riches of Africa will perhaps equal those of her soil. In the times... | |
| Frederick Freeman - 1836 - 380 páginas
...means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation ; without lamenting that a country so gifted and favoured by nature, should remain in its present savage and neglected state." ' Indeed, all tourists and journalists, who have explored the continent of Africa, whilst they find... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1840 - 624 páginas
...agriculture, and reflect, withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation, without lamenting that a country, so abundantly gifted...Much more did I lament that a people, of manners and disposition so gentle and benevolent, should either be left, as they now are, immersed in the gross... | |
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