 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1856 - 744 pages
...the Abyssinians, — described by Gobat as constant in nothing but inconstancy, — soft, merry, and affectionate souls, they pass without any apparent...fury, when they are capable of terrible atrocities. At Aden they appear happier than in their native country. There I have often seen a man clapping his... | |
 | 1856 - 816 pages
...and instability of the negro type. Light-minded as the Abyssinians, soft, merry, and affectionate, they pass without any apparent transition into a state...fury, when they are capable of terrible atrocities. An instance is recorded. In February, 1847, a small sept, the Ayyal Tunis, being expelled from 13erberah,... | |
 | 1889 - 626 pages
...deal with. At one moment ' soft, ' merry, and affectionate,' they pass, Sir Richard Burton remarks, ' without any apparent transition into a state of fury, ' when they are capable of terrible atrocities.' * For five Englishmen to place themselves, during four months, absolutely in the power of armed, inconsequent,... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1894 - 264 pages
...the Abyssinians — described by Gobat as constant in nothing but inconstancy — soft, merry, and affectionate souls, they pass without any apparent transition into a state of fury, when I The best description of the dress is that of Fenelon : " Leurs habits sont aises a faire, car en... | |
 | 1908 - 336 pages
...the Abyssinians — described by Gobat as constant in nothing but inconstancy — soft, merry, and affectionate souls, they pass without any apparent...fury, when they are capable of terrible atrocities. At Aden they appear happier than in their native country. There I have often seen a man clapping his... | |
 | J. W. Gregory - 1968 - 496 pages
...the Abyssinians, — described by Gobat as constant in nothing but inconstancy, — soft, merry, and affectionate souls, they pass without any apparent...fury, when they are capable of terrible atrocities." In this, perhaps, Burton was less unjust than he sometimes was. The behaviour of some of the Somali... | |
 | Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore) - 1997 - 344 pages
...nearly a century and a half earlier: they are 'constant in nothing but inconstancy - soft, merry, and affectionate souls, they pass without any apparent...fury, when they are capable of terrible atrocities'. 23 This fed a behaviour and perception of opposition and exclusion, rather than integration between... | |
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They have all the levity and instability of the Negro character ; light-minded as the Abyssinians, — described by Gobat as constant in nothing but inconstancy, — soft, merry, and affectionate souls, they pass without any apparent transition into a... 