 They of the lowlands are kind, pitiful, helpful, honest, and plain, compassionating strangers, which we found by our own experience among them. They of the uplands are ill-natured, false, unkind, though outwardly fair, and seemingly courteous, and of...  Ceylon: past and present - Page 73by Sir George Barrow (2d bart.) - 1857 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Cordiner - Cingalese - 1807 - 540 pages
...natures of the inhabitants of the mountains and low-lands are very different. They of the low-lands are kind, pitiful, helpful, honest and plain, compassionating...outwardly fair and seemingly courteous, and of more com* plaisant carriage, speech and better behaviour, than the low-landers. " As for the women, their... | |
 | James Cordiner - Southeast Asia - 1807 - 510 pages
...natures of the inhabitants of the mountains an4 low-lands are very different. They of the low-lands are kind, pitiful, helpful, honest and plain, compassionating...the up-lands are ill-natured, false, unkind, though outT i * wardly fair and seemingly courteous, and of more complaisant carriage, speech and better behaviour,... | |
 | James Cordiner - Cingalese - 1807 - 516 pages
...natures of the inhabitants of the mountains and low-lands are very different. They of the low-lands are kind, pitiful, helpful, honest and plain, compassionating...strangers, which we found by our own experience among them. 'Jliey of the up-lands are ill-natured, false, unkind, though outwardly fair and seemingly courteous,... | |
 | Asia - 1822 - 658 pages
...till urgent necessity constrain them ; neat in appurcl ; nice in eating, and not given to much sleep. They of the low lands are kind, pitiful, helpful,...we found by our own experience among them. They of tbe uplands are ill-natured, false, unkind, though outwardly fair, and seeming courteous, and of more... | |
 | Phrenology - 1832 - 700 pages
...the inhabitants of the mountains and lowlands,1' he adds, " are very different. They of the lowlands are kind, pitiful, helpful, honest, and plain, compassionating...fair and seemingly courteous, and of more complaisant speech and behaviour than the lowlanders." In the region of Benevolence and Veneration, the heads of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...The natures of the inhabitants of the mountains and lowlands are very different. They of the lowlands are kind, pitiful, helpful, honest, and plain, compassionating...speech, and better behaviour than the lowlanders.' — (pp. 64, 65.) They are all extremely poor, and appear to be content with very little ; their dwellings... | |
 | Henry Marshall - Sri Lanka - 1846 - 328 pages
...and not much given to sleep." The Lowlanders, or, as they are usually denominated, the Singalese, " are kind, pitiful, helpful, honest, and plain ; compassionating...our own experience among them. They of the uplands (Kandyans) are ill-natured, false, unkind, though outwardly fair, and seemingly courteous, and of more... | |
 | Henry Marshall - Sri Lanka - 1846 - 342 pages
...compassionating strangers, which we found by our own experience among them. They of the uplands (Kandyans) are ill-natured, false, unkind, though outwardly fair,...complaisant carriage, speech, and better behaviour, than the Lowlanders."—(Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon, by Robert Knox.) Knox is, in general,... | |
 | Robert Knox - Ceyton - 1911 - 590 pages
...d1ffer from o L- L rj L • those of the Strangers, wh1ch we round by our own exper1ence among Lowlands. them. They of the Up-lands are ill-natured, false,...speech and better behaviour, than the Low-landers. Their good Of all Vices they are least addicted to stealing, the which opinion of they do exceedingly... | |
 | Paul Edward Pieris - Portuguese - 1914 - 684 pages
...and it is very rare that they give a blow so much as to their slaves.2 . . . They of the low-lands are kind, pitiful, helpful, honest and plain, compassionating...the uplands are ill-natured, false, unkind, though fair and seemingly courteous Chapter VI. Of all vices they are least addicted to stealing,3 which they... | |
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