... at two yards' distance. He went home (as I afterwards learned) to a solitary dinner, instead of dining at the club, as he had intended. The hint thrown out touching this new feature of his deafness, had induced him to change his mind, and to avoid... New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 262edited by - 1837Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1837 - 604 pages
...had induced him to change his mind, and to avoid company until he had had a little self-communion. He took three extra glasses of Madeira without washing...to say instead — it might so happen — " You be ,'r without discovering the mistake, or having a chance of apologising ? " I had no idea of doing it... | |
| Laman Blanchard - 1846 - 416 pages
...deafness had induced him to change his mind, and to avoid company until he had had a little selfcommunion. He took three extra glasses of Madeira without washing...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... | |
| Asia - 1927 - 1078 pages
...thought so when he wrote in 1877: "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." "Today," declares Sarah Gertrude Millin, who will contribute to the April ASIA an article on the Kaffir,... | |
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