"Greenlander" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... It does not follow, because the materials for luxury are wanted, that the bad passions and selfishness, which are its usual companions, will be wanted also. A Greenlander may display as much gluttony over his train oil and whale blubber as the most refined epicure can exhibit with the Physiologie du Gout in his hand, and with all Monsieur Ude's science at his disposal. When the gratification of our taste and senses interferes ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various |
