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" I am less shy than I was, and with real gentlemen feel no difficulty in discussing points on which we differ. It is the vulgar, uneducated fellow that beats me. The Melanesians, laugh as you may at it, are naturally gentlemanly and courteous and well-bred.... "
A Modern Knight - Page 13
by Joseph Hopkins Twichell - 1906 - 33 pages
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Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the ..., Volume 2

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Bishops - 1874 - 626 pages
...discussing points on which we differ. It is the vulgar uneducated fellow that beats me. The Melanesians, laugh as you may at it, are naturally gentlemanly...though not a few downright savages. I vastly prefer the savage.' Melbourne was, however, to be taken on the return ; and he went on to Adelaide, where Bishop...
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Life of J.C. Patteson, Volume 2

Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1874 - 408 pages
...discussing points on which we differ. It is the vulgar uneducated fellow that beats me. The Melanesians, laugh as you may at it, are naturally gentlemanly...though not a few downright savages. I vastly prefer the savage.' Melbourne was, however, to be taken on the return ; and he went on to Adelaide, where Bishop...
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Noble workers, a book of examples for young men, by H.A. Page

Alexander Hay Japp - 1875 - 448 pages
...discussing points on which we differ. It is the vulgar, uneducated fellow that beats me. The Melanesians, laugh as you may at it, are naturally gentlemanly...downright savages. I vastly prefer the savages." He found so many demands made on his time by indifferent matters while in New Zealand, that already he...
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Servants of the King

Robert Elliott Speer - Missionaries - 1909 - 278 pages
...and uncleanness he strove against, but he saw the real worth and possibility of nobleness in them. "The Melanesians," he said, "laugh as you may at it,...though not a few downright savages. I vastly prefer the savage." He learned their languages, so that he could speak to them more clearly and forcefully than...
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Epoch Makers of Modern Missions

Archibald McLean - Christian biography - 1912 - 344 pages
...grief less bitter, joy less wild. It is the vulgar, uneducated fellow that beats me. The Melanesians, laugh as you may at it, are naturally gentlemanly...few downright savages. I vastly prefer the savages." One can easily imagine his joy as he led his first converts to Christ, and his greater joy when he...
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