 | English literature - 1814 - 698 pages
...moral qualities of savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the importance of. the female in savage life has no...capacity to be useful. The Indians, whose treatment to the females is mildest, and who pay most deference to their opinions, are by no means the most distinguished... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1815 - 466 pages
...moral qualities of savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the importance of the female in savage life has no...who pay most deference to their opinions, are by no 419 the most distinguished for their virtues ; nor is this deference attended by any increase of attachment,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...moral qualities of savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the importance of the female in savage life has no...increase of attachment, since they are equally willing with the most brutal husband, to prostitute their wives to strangers. On the other hand, the tribes... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1817 - 464 pages
...moral qualities of savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the importance of the female in savage life has no...most deference to their opinions, are by no means 419 the most distinguished for their virtues ; nor IB {his deference attended by any increase of attachment,... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1817 - 678 pages
...moral qualities of savages arc to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think, that the importance of the female in savage life, has no...whose treatment of the females is mildest, and who paymost deference to their opinions, are by no means the most distinguished for their virtues; nor... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...moral qualities of savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the importance of the female in savage life has no...by their capacity to be useful. The Indians, whose treatmentof thefemales is mildest, and who pay most deference to their opinions, are by no means the... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1843 - 416 pages
...of savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the condition of the female in savage life has no necessary relation...wholly by their capacity to be useful. The Indians -who treat their females most mildly, and pay most deference to their opinions, are by no means the... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1893 - 488 pages
...qualities of savages are to be (p. 13f) estimated. Our own observation, however, induces us to think that the importance of the female in savage life has no...increase of attachment, since they are equally willing with the most brutal husband to prostitute their wives to strangers. On the other hand, the tribes... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1902 - 618 pages
...qualities of the savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the importance of the female in savage life has no...increase of attachment, since they are equally willing with the most brutal husband to prostitute their wives to strangers. On the other hand, the tribes... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1902 - 426 pages
...moral qualities of savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the importance of the female in savage life, has no...increase of attachment, since they are equally willing with the most brutal husband, to prostitute their wives to strangers. On the other hand, the tribes... | |
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The treatment of women is often considered as the standard by which the moral qualities of savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the importance of the female in savage life has no necessary relation to the... 
