 | 1801 - 572 pagine
...Barrow gives the following account of the Farmer of the Country, the Dutch Peasant, or Booi : • •« A true Dutch peasant, or boor as he styles himself, has not Ac smallest idea of what an English farmer means by the word comfort. Placed in a country where not... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1802 - 404 pagine
...asylum at the Cape of Good Hope from the religious persecutions that drove them from their own country. But a true Dutch peasant, or boor as he styles himself,...smallest idea of what an English farmer means by the word comfort. Placed in a country where not only the necessaries, but almost every luxury of life might... | |
 | George Barrington - 1810 - 512 pagine
...but many of these are descendants of the French families, as a true Dutch peasant, or boor, as lie styles himself, has not the smallest idea of what an English farmer means hy the word comfort. la the midst of all the comforts, and even the luxuries of life, which might be... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 508 pagine
...humane colonists boast of having destroyed with his own hands near 300 of these unfortunate wretches. A true Dutch peasant, or boor as he styles himself,...smallest idea of what an English farmer means by the word comfort. Placed in a country where not only the necessaries, but almost every luxury of life might... | |
 | William Kingdom - 1820 - 392 pagine
...sheep, will often belong to the owner of such an establishment as this. A true Dutch peasant, or boor, has not the smallest idea of what an English farmer means by the word comfort. Placed in a country where not only the necessaries, but almost every luxury of life,... | |
 | 1821 - 992 pagine
...at the Cape of Good Hope, from1 the religious persecutions which drove them from their own country. But a true Dutch peasant, or boor, as he styles himself,...smallest idea of what an English farmer means by the word comfort. Placed in a country where not only the necessaries, but almost every luxury of life might,... | |
 | Wendy Woodward, Patricia Hayes, Gary Minkley - 2002 - 406 pagine
...reflection of economic progress to Africaners tather than to Africans, but the import was the same. A "true Dutch peasant, or Boor as he styles himself,...smallest idea of what an English farmer means by the word comfort." His house was "either open to the roof, or covered only with rough poles and turf, affording... | |
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But a true Dutch peasant, or boor as he styles himself, has not the smallest idea of what an English farmer means by the word comfort. Placed in a country where not only the necessaries, but almost every luxury of life might by industry be procured, he... 