The young men, ten in number, were tall, robust, and healthy, with good-natured countenances, which would any where have procured them a friendly reception , and with a simplicity of manner and a fear of doing wrong which at once prevented the possibility... The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette - Page 3031831Full view - About this book
| England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...wrong, which at once prevented tbc possibility of giving offence. Unacquainted with the world, tiny asked a number of questions which would have applied...short time before, than to perfect strangers ; and enquired after ships and people we bad never heard of. Their dress, made up of the presents which had... | |
| Scotland - 1831 - 1040 pages
...which would any where have procured them a friendly reception •. and with a simplicity of manner, and a fear of doing wrong, which at once prevented the...short time before, than to perfect strangers ; and enquired after ships and people we had never heard of. Their dress, made up of the presents which had... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1831 - 508 pages
...which would any where have procured them a friendly reception ; and with a simplicity of manner and a fear of doing wrong, which at once prevented the...would have applied better to persons with whom they bad been intimate, and who bad left them bat в short time before, than to perfect strangers; and inquired... | |
| 1831 - 602 pages
...which would anywhere have procured them a friendly reception ; and with a simplicity of manner and a fear of doing wrong which at once prevented the...strangers ; and inquired after ships and people we had never heard of. Their dress, made up of the presents which had been given them by the masters and... | |
| Thomas Boyles Murray - Bounty Mutiny, 1789 - 1853 - 306 pages
...which would anywhere have procured them a friendly reception ; and with a simplicity of manner and a fear of doing wrong, which at once prevented the...strangers ; and inquired after ships and people we had never heard of. Their dress, made up of the presents which had been given them by the masters and... | |
| Thomas Boyles Murray - Bounty Mutiny, 1789 - 1854 - 380 pages
...countenances, which would anywhere have procured them a friendly reception; and with a simplicity of manner and a fear of doing wrong, which at once prevented the...strangers ; and inquired after ships and people we had never heard of. Their dress, made up of the presents which had been given them by the masters and... | |
| Thomas Boyles Murray - Missions - 1858 - 468 pages
...which would anywhere have procured them a friendly reception ; and with a simplicity of manner, and a fear of doing wrong, which at once prevented the...strangers; and inquired after ships and people we had never heard of. Their dress, made up of the presents which had been given them by the masters and... | |
| Henry Shepheard - Apologetics - 1867 - 278 pages
...which would any where have procured them a friendly reception ; and with a simplicity of manner, and a fear of doing wrong, which at once prevented the possibility of giving offence." — " During the time I was with them, I never heard them indulge in a joke or other levity; and the... | |
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