| Reginald Heber - 1828 - 568 pages
...much inferior to the generality of our ship's company. Two observations struck me forcibly ; first, that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable...first instance, while it is well known that to them a fair complexion gives the idea of ill-health, and of that sort of deformity which in our eyes belongs... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...natives themselves, must be exceedingly interesting : ' Two observations struck me forcibly ; first, that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable...first instance, while it is well known that to them a fair complexion gives the idea of ill health, and of that sort of deformity which in our eyes belongs... | |
| 1828 - 614 pages
...NATIVES OF INDIA. (Extracted from bis Indian Journal.) Two observations struck me forcibly : first, that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable...first instance; while it is well known, that to them a fair complexion gives the idea of ill health, and is that sort of deformity which in our eyes belongs... | |
| 1828 - 608 pages
...THOS. BAKEWELL. Spring Valf, Staffordshire, Juw.24, 1828. Two observations struck me forcibly : first, that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable...first instance; while it is well known, that to them a fair complexion gives the idea of ill health, and is that sort of deformity which in our eyes belongs... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...natives themselves, must be exceedingly interesting : 1 Two observations struck me forcibly ; first, that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable...first instance, while it is well known that to them a fair complexion gives the idea of ill health, and of that sort of deformity which in our eyes belongs... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...natives themselves, must be exceedingly interesting : ' Two observations struck me forcibly ; first, that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable...first instance, while it is well known that to them a fair complexion gives the idea of ill health, and of that sort of deformity which in our eyes belongs... | |
| Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1828 - 558 pages
...much inferior to the generality of our ship's company. Two observations struck me forcibly ; first, that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable...since we are not displeased with it even in the first instancy while it is well known that to them a fair complexion gives the idea of ill-health, and of... | |
| 1829 - 712 pages
...themselves alone, or, if they can, with Eushop writes thus : 41 Two observations struck me forcibly ; first, that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable...instance, while it is well known, that to them, a fair complexion gives the idea of ill health, and of that sort of deformity, which in our eyes belongs... | |
| Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 pages
...themselves, must be exceedingly interesting : ' Two observations (he says) struck me forcibly ; first, that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable...first instance, while it is well known that to them a fair complexion gives the idea of ill health, and of that sort of deformity which in our eyes belongs... | |
| 1829 - 762 pages
...metal." The bishop mentions two observations which occurred to him forcibly, as he gazed at them ; first, that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable to the human eye, than the fair skins of Europe ; and the second was, how entirely the idea of indelicacy, which would naturally belong to such figures... | |
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