Negro-mania: Being an Examination of the Falsely Assumed Equality of the Various Races of MenCampbell & Powers, 1851 - 549 sider |
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... physiognomy : -A long oval countenance ; a beau- tifully curved nose , somewhat rounded towards the tip ; lips rather thick , but not protruding excessive- ly ; a retreating chin ; scanty beard ; lively eyes ; strongly frizzled , but ...
... physiognomy : -A long oval countenance ; a beau- tifully curved nose , somewhat rounded towards the tip ; lips rather thick , but not protruding excessive- ly ; a retreating chin ; scanty beard ; lively eyes ; strongly frizzled , but ...
Side 60
... Ber- berines , and Ababdeh , and Bishari , is precisely that character of physiognomy which , by Larrey and most other writers , is described as the prevalent type of the Abyssinian countenance . Baron Lar- rey , 60 NEGROMANIA .
... Ber- berines , and Ababdeh , and Bishari , is precisely that character of physiognomy which , by Larrey and most other writers , is described as the prevalent type of the Abyssinian countenance . Baron Lar- rey , 60 NEGROMANIA .
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... physiognomy . Hence it results , that if nature have be- stowed very little beard , a narrow forehead , or a brownish red skin , every individual thinks himself beautiful , in proportion as his body is destitute of hairs , his head ...
... physiognomy . Hence it results , that if nature have be- stowed very little beard , a narrow forehead , or a brownish red skin , every individual thinks himself beautiful , in proportion as his body is destitute of hairs , his head ...
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... physiognomy . " The custom of carrying the children on the back has been referred to , in order to explain the flat nose and swoln lips of the Negro . In the violent motions required in their hard labor , as in beating or pounding ...
... physiognomy . " The custom of carrying the children on the back has been referred to , in order to explain the flat nose and swoln lips of the Negro . In the violent motions required in their hard labor , as in beating or pounding ...
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... physiognomy , neither Jewish , nor Coptic , nor Arab ; mouth larger than in the European ; nostrils somewhat expanded ; stature moderate . Their history is unknown ; they prefer the tent to the hut , and , but for our climate , would ...
... physiognomy , neither Jewish , nor Coptic , nor Arab ; mouth larger than in the European ; nostrils somewhat expanded ; stature moderate . Their history is unknown ; they prefer the tent to the hut , and , but for our climate , would ...
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Side 438 - I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Side 437 - Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
Side 434 - Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination.
Side 430 - Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state, and thus save the expense of supplying, by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances...
Side 506 - ... is in their power or opportunity towards delivering him from that. If it be his own indolence that prevents and prohibits him, then his own indolence is the enemy he must be delivered from: and the first "right...
Side 504 - Our own white or sallow Ireland, sluttishly starving from age to age on its act-of-parliament "freedom," was hitherto the flower of mismanagement among the nations: but what will this be to a Negro Ireland, with pumpkins themselves fallen scarce like potatoes ! Imagination cannot fathom such an object; the belly of Chaos never held the like. The human mind, in its wide wanderings, has not dreamt yet of such a " freedom
Side 433 - ... the conversation of their masters; many have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries where tho arts and sciences are cultivated to a considerable degree, and have had before their eyes samples of the best works from abroad.
Side 432 - They are at least as brave, and more adventuresome. But this may perhaps proceed from a want of forethought which prevents their seeing a danger till it be present.
Side 438 - Notwithstanding these considerations which must weaken their respect for the laws of property, we find among them numerous instances of the most rigid integrity, and as many as among their better instructed masters, of benevolence, gratitude, and unshaken fidelity. — The opinion, that they are inferior in the faculties of reason and imagination, must be hazarded with great diffidence.
Side 512 - ... some measure chained there! The West Indies grow pine-apples, and sweet fruits, and spices; we hope they will one day grow beautiful Heroic human Lives too, which is surely the ultimate object they were made for: beautiful souls and brave; sages, poets, what not; making the Earth nobler round them, as their kindred from of old have been doing; true "splinters of the old Harz Rock...