6 Matching Annotations
  1. Jul 2021
    1. wherefore the qualities of brutes are in some men, and not in others?

      Usually used in a racist manner (see previous annotations about physiognomy).

    2. he Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One.
    3. In old Greece, in old Rome; he flourish in Germany all over, in France, in India, even in the Chernosese; and in China, so far from us in all ways, there even is he, and the peoples fear him at this day. He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.
    4. like a moral Viking

      Ancient and respected (white) race of warriors

    5. piteously to intercede with the “foreign gentleman.”
    6. his violent demeanour that he was English