 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1866 - 534 páginas
...17i,.115 139.8»5 173,726 144,2(19 209,100 180.385 288,728 22JS.M9 3M.394 268,814 295,863 characterises both than their humiliating mode of acknowledging...the servile 'Upadam do nog' (I fall at your feet) ; whioh is no figure of s|>eech. for they will literally throw themselves down and kiss your feet for... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1866 - 538 páginas
...humiliating mode of acknowledging n kindness, their expression of gratitude bung the servile ' Upndnm do nog' (I fall at your feet) ; which is no figure of speech, fur they" will literally throw themselves down and kiss your feet for the trilling donation of a few... | |
 | 1878 - 802 páginas
...the one equivalent to the other. Speaking of Poles and Slavonic Silesians, Captain Spencer remarks: "Perhaps no distinctive trait of manners more characterizes...Upadam do nog " (I fall at your feet), which is no fignre of speech, for they will literally throw themselves down and kiss your feet for the trifling... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1883 - 720 páginas
...as equivalent to the other. Speaking of Poles and Sclavonic Silesians, Captain Spencer remarks — " Perhaps no distinctive trait of manners more characterizes...literally throw themselves down and kiss your feet for the trilling donation of a few halfpence." Here, then, the attitude of the conquered man beneath the conqueror... | |
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Perhaps no distinctive trait of manners more characterizes both than their humiliating mode of acknowledging a kindness, their expression of gratitude being the servile "Upadam do nog" (I fall at your feet), which is no figure of speech, for they will... 