 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 458 sidor
...he calls me. I call him a savage, and I call a savage a something highly desirable to be civilised off the face of the earth. I think a mere gent (which I take to be the lowest form of civilisation) better than a howling, whistling, clucking, stamping, jumping, tearing savage. It is... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1861 - 260 sidor
...rum firewater, and me a pale face, wholly fail to reconcile me to him. I don't care what he calls me. I call him a savage, and I call a savage a something highly desirable to be civilised off the face of the earth. I think a mere gent (which I take to be the lowest form of civilisation)... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1861 - 482 sidor
...fire-water, and me a pale face, wholly fail to reconcile me to him. I don't care what he calls me. I call him a savage, and I call a savage a something highly desirable to be civilised off the face of the earth. I think a mere gent (which I take to be the lowest form of civilisation)... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1863 - 366 sidor
...fire-water, and me a pale face, wholly fail to reconcile me to him. I don't care what he calls me. I call him a savage, and I call a savage a something...jumping, tearing savage. It is all one to me, whether he sticks a fish-bone through his visage, or bits of trees through the lobes of his ears, or birds' feathers... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 658 sidor
...fire-water, and me a pale face, wholly fail to reconcile me to him. I don't care what he calls me. I call him a savage, and I call a savage a something highly desirable to be civilised off the face of the earth. I think a mere gent (which I take to be the lowest form of civilisation)... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1869 - 544 sidor
...fire-water, and me a pale face, wholly fail to reconcile me to him. I don't care what he calls me. I call him a savage, and I call a savage a something highly desirable to be civilised off the face of the earth. I think a mere gent (which I take to be the lowest form of civilisation)... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 sidor
...fire-water, and me a pale-face, wholly (ail to reconcile me to him. I don't care what he calls me. . civiliied off the face of the earth. I think a mere gent (which I take to be the lowest form of civ... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1875 - 250 sidor
...fire-water, and me a pale-face, wholly fail to reconcile me to him. I don't care what he calls me. I call him a savage ; and I call a savage a something...jumping, tearing savage. It is all one to me, whether he sticks a fish-bone through his visage, or bits of trees through the lobes of his ears, or birds' feathers... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 sidor
...fire-water, and me a pale-face, wholly fail to reconcile me to him. I don't care what he calls me. I call him a savage, and I call a savage a something...jumping, tearing savage. It is all one to me whether he sticks a fish-bone through his visage, or bits of trees through the lobes of his ears, or birds' feathers... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 sidor
...fire-water, and me a pale-face, wholly fail to reconcile me to him. I don't care what he calls me. I call him a savage, and I call a savage a something...clucking, stamping, jumping, tearing savage. It is all oae to me whether he sticks a fish-bone through his visage, or bits of trees through the lobes of his... | |
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To come to the point at once, I beg to say that I have not the least belief in the Noble Savage. I consider him a prodigious nuisance, and an enormous superstition. His calling rum fire-water, and me a pale face, wholly fail to reconcile me to him. 
