...“How can you know a mind whichhas no characteristics except that it is wholly and supremely competent? Meremental powers won’t give us a clue... 
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...As for Sheeta—the great cat understood even less than the apes; butyet Tarzan could not but marvel at the remarkable characteristics thisbeast had evidenced...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...Indeed cheerfulness and affabilityare two of the leading characteristics of our nation...
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
... The characteristics of the rainy season in this wonderfully humid region may account in some measure for the periodical floods of the Zambesi, and perhaps the Nile...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...There are characteristics that all the authorities seem agreed on,and one is that individual spirits in the same class vary in power:some are strong of their sort, some weak...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...It was socircumstantial that I gave it credit, though the false reports in thisland are one of its most marked characteristics...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...It is one of the damning characteristics of the slave system, that it robs its victims of every earthly incentive to a holy life...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave’s point of view...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
... Her departure hadsome of the characteristics of a secret flight; it was as importantthat her destination should not be known, as it had been that herbrother should conceal his presence in the town...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...Stand boldly up in your own national characteristics, and show by your perseverance and industry, your honor and purity, that you are men, colored men, but of no inferior quality...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
..."The positive method confirmed by the rational method enables us toestablish an ideal type of Anarchist, whose mentality is theaggregate of common psychic characteristics...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
... With Hippolyte Taine, every truly freespirit has come to realize that "Puritanism is the death of culture,philosophy, humor, and good fellowship; its characteristics aredullness, monotony, and gloom...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
...Therefore it is necessary, by a final examination of their characteristics, to eliminate those features which are hostile to sociability...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
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