 He took three extra glasses of Madeira without washing down the obstinate doubt that threatened to become an impediment to his ever speaking again with any confidence or comfort. Naturally fond of music, which he could have enjoyed at all hours but for...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Page 2621837Full view - About this book
 | Laman Blanchard - 1846 - 416 pages
...shouted out that I would call upon him in the evening ; but a promise shot from Perkins's steam gun would not have hit the deaf gentleman's ear at two...grateful feeling in the ordinary terms, such as " I am much obliged," he was not liable to say instead — it might so happen — "You be ," without discovering... | |
 | Sarah Gertrude Millin - South Africa - 1926 - 326 pages
...final conclusion : " South Africa," he wrote, " is a country of black men — and not of white men. It has been so ; it is so ; and it will be so." To-day, fifty years later, South Africa is sitting up suddenly, as one awakened by the clapping of... | |
 | James Duncan Crawford - Sociology, Rural - 1927 - 256 pages
...revel in derision" for as SU Millin says, "South Africa is a country of black men and not of white men. It has been so, it is so, and it will be so." Bibliography Brown, JT Among Bantu Nomads. Bryce, J. Impressions of South Africa. Daws on, WE South... | |
 | Artillery - 1927 - 646 pages
...his final conclusion: 'South Africa,' he wrote, 'is a country of black men — and not of white men. It has been so; it is so; and it will be so'." But Mrs. Millin says white South Africa will not today admit this. "As white and black came into the... | |
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