John Gabriel Stedman Quotes

• 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

  Race, People, Climate

  John Gabriel Stedman (1806). “Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America”, p.380, Рипол Классик

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• 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

  Matrimonio, País, Marido

  John Gabriel Stedman (1796). “Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. By Captn. J. G. Stedman ... ...”, p.28

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• 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

  Self, Ideas, Feelings

  John Gabriel Stedman (1806). “Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana ... from the Year 1772 to 1777 ; Elucidating the History of that Country and Describing Its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, [etc.] Trees, Shrubs, [etc.] with an Account of the Indians and Negroes of Guinea”, p.196

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• Un pueblo feliz lo llamo todavía, cuya paz y moral genuina no han sido contaminadas con los vicios europeos; y cuyos errores son sólo los errores de la ignorancia, y no la depravación arraigada de una pretendida civilización, y un cristianismo espurio y falso.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  Ignorance, Errors, Civilization

  John Gabriel Stedman (1813). “Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777:: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions, ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea”, p.396

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• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  Art, Poetry, Excellence

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