John Gabriel Stedman Professions : AuthorBorn : 1744Died : March 7, 1797 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by John Gabriel Stedman No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live. John Gabriel Stedman climateracepeople To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame. John Gabriel Stedman selffeelingsideas A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity. John Gabriel Stedman errorsignorancecivilization Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. John Gabriel Stedman poetryexcellenceart Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives. John Gabriel Stedman marriagehusbandcountry Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson authorAll Authors
