 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 σελίδες
...than one wife. Their habit of life, which forms them into bands of outlaws or soldiers, renders them independent of the other sex, whom they never mention nor seem to miss in their usual concerns and amusements. They have, in truth, rather a contempt and aversion for them ; consider them as their... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 σελίδες
...wife Their habit of life, which forms them into bands of outlaws or soldiers, renders them mdependent of the other sex, whom they never mention nor seem to miss in their usual concerns and amusements. They have, in truth, rather a contempt and aversion for them ; consider them as their... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1858 - 592 σελίδες
...very words : — " / wish you to come home — / have got a wife for you" Just as if he had said, I have got a cow for you. Though the Mahometans amongst...seem to miss in their usual concerns or amusements. advantage of reading the ' Researches Albanians were to be confounded with in Greece,' I should have... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1872 - 596 σελίδες
...Their habit of life, whicb furms them into bauds of soldiers, renders them independent of the other r •whom they never mention nor seem to miss in their usual concerns and amusements. They have, in truth, rather a contempt and aversion for them ; obliging them, excepting... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1872 - 608 σελίδες
...into bands of soldiers, renders them independent of tho other sex, 402 7. Dress. 8. Dance». Sect. IV. •whom they never mention nor seem to miss in their usual concerns and amusements. They have, in truth, rather a contempt and aversion for them ; obliging them, excepting... | |
 | Robert Elsie - 2001 - 384 σελίδες
...visited the court of Ali Pasha Tepelena (1759-1822), Hobhouse wrote that the Albanian soldiers lived "independent of the other sex, whom they never mention,...except the Thebans, can furnish a similar instance." Hobhouse's observation is confirmed by a number of other foreign writers and travellers who visited... | |
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Byron, observed that the men had 'rather a contempt and even aversion for their females, and there is nothing in any of their occasional inclinations which can be said to partake of what we call the tender passion. In short, their habit of life . . .... 