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...motion, frequently called forth fretful expressions, which were no sooner uttered than atoned for." " Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than...himself, and more in need of advice and assistance." They are so thin, that tbeir bodies become sore from lying on the hard boards with only the intervention... | |
 | Woman - 1840 - 806 страници
...general topics, and avoid reverting to their dreadful situation : " But I observed," he says, " that in proportion as our strength decayed, our minds exhibited...change of place recommended by one, as being warmer and more comfortable, and refused by the other from a dread of motion, frequently called forth fretful... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1841 - 376 страници
...excellent leader, " an unreasonable pettishness with each other began to manifest itself, each believing the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and assistance." During this gloomy period, after the first acute pains of hunger (which lasted but for three or four... | |
 | 1855 - 846 страници
...speaking, directly, of our present sufferings, or even of the prospect of relief. I observed, that in proportion as our strength decayed, our minds exhibited...change of place, recommended by one as being warmer and more comfortable, and refused by the other from a dread of motion, frequently called forth fretful... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1846 - 574 страници
...speaking directly of our present sufferings, or ev,en of the prospect of relief. I observed that, in proportion as our strength decayed, our minds exhibited...unreasonable pettishness with each other. Each of iis thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and assistance.... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1846 - 400 страници
...speaking directly of our present sufferings, or even of the prospect of relief. I observed that, in proportion as our strength decayed, our minds exhibited...symptoms of weakness, evinced by a kind of unreasonable pettishuess with each other. Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more... | |
 | Andrew Combe - 1849 - 222 страници
...struck with the signs of weakness of intellect which they exhibited: " I observed," says he, " that as our strength decayed our minds exhibited symptoms of weakness, evinced by a kind of unreasonable pettislmess with each other. Kach of us thought the misery arising from insufficiency of employment,... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - 380 страници
...were received pettishly, and Captain Franklin himself admits that he became excessively peevish. Each thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and assistance. On the 7th November, the long and ardently wished for relief, came by the hands of three Indians, sent... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1851 - 402 страници
...were received pettishly, and Captain Franklin himself admits that he became excessively peevish. Each thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and assistance. On the 7th November, the long and ardently wished for relief, came by the hands of three Indians, sent... | |
 | GEORGE MOORE - 1852 - 466 страници
...avoid, as far as possible, reverting to their dreadful situation. " I observed," he says, " that in proportion as our strength decayed, our minds exhibited...Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than himsf-!tj and more in need of advice and assistance. So trifling a circumstance as a change of place,... | |
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I observed that in proportion as our strength decayed our minds exhibited symptoms of weakness, evinced by a kind of unreasonable pettishness with each other. Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and... 
