O thou poor man ! what hard destiny can have brought thee hither, to a place never visited by any one before ? This is the first time I ever beheld a stranger. Thou miserable creature ! how didst thou come, and wbither wilt thou go ? Dost thou not perceive... The Natural History of Humming Birds - Pàgina 73per William Jardine - 1845Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| William MacGillivray - 1834 - 408 pàgines
...hair hung loose about her head, and on it she wore a flat red cap. ' O thou poor man !' quoth she, ' what hard destiny can have brought thee hither, to...! how didst thou come, and whither wilt thou go?' " Linnaeus entreated her to point out some way by which he might continue his journey. " ' Nay, man,'... | |
| William MacGillivray - 1834 - 418 pàgines
...hair hung loose about her head, and on it she wore a fiat red cap. ' O thou poor man !' quoth she, ' what hard destiny can have brought thee hither, to...creature ! how didst thou come, and whither wilt thou go ?' " Linnaeus entreated her to point out some way by which he might continue his journey. " ' Nay,... | |
| Richard King - 1836 - 676 pàgines
...reached her hut, exhausted by hunger and the fatigue of travelling through innumerable marshes : — " O thou poor man ! what hard destiny can have brought...creature ! how didst thou come, and whither wilt thou go ?" Captain Back rather avoided an interview than otherwise, as he considered, from the want of an interpreter,... | |
| 1829 - 516 pàgines
...reached her hut, exhausted by hunger and the fatigue of travelling through interminable marshes, " U, thou poor man ! what hard destiny can have brought...creature ! how didst thou come, and whither wilt thou go ?" (Introd. p. xxiv.) This inhospitable tract furnishes 9 species of Carnivora, including bears and... | |
| Daniel C. Carr - 1844 - 128 pàgines
...frightened our traveller ; but though a fury in appearance, she spoke with mingled pity and reserve. ' O thou poor man! what hard destiny can have brought...I ever beheld a stranger. Thou miserable creature I how didst thou come, and whither wilt thou go ? Dost thou not perceive what houses and habitations... | |
| Sir John Richardson - 1861 - 438 pàgines
...ornament with brass rings. She addressed me with mingled pity and reserve in the following words : — " 0 thou poor man ! what hard destiny can have brought...creature ! how didst thou come, and whither wilt thou go ?" The northern termination of the woods, co-incident with the south-west borders of the barren-grounds... | |
| Robert Brown - 1876 - 362 pàgines
...ornament, with brass rings. She addressed me, with mingled pity and reserve, in the following words : ' O thou poor man ! what hard destiny can have brought...creature ! how didst thou come, and whither wilt thou go ? ' " In a word, the student from Upsal thought, as did another famous Lapland traveller, who came... | |
| Edward Rae - 1877 - 394 pàgines
...0 thou poor man ! what hard destiny can have brought thee hither to a place never visited by anyone before ? This is the first time I ever beheld a stranger....creature ! how did'st thou come, and whither wilt thou go ? ' The soldier had been gone for half an hour, and we still sat among the crowd. 1 told Perruquier... | |
| Florence Caddy - 1887 - 388 pàgines
...a woman of very diminutive stature to see me, who addressed me in Swedish in the following terms : "0 thou poor man ! what hard destiny can have brought thee hither, to a place never visited by anyone before ? This is the first time I ever beheld a stranger. Thou miserable creature ! How didst... | |
| Florence Caddy - 1887 - 376 pàgines
...woman of very diminutive stature to see me, who addressed me in Swedish in the following terms : " 0 thou poor man ! what hard destiny can have brought thee hither, to a place never visited by anyone before ? This is the first time I ever beheld a stranger. Thou miserable creature ! How didst... | |
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