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Quotation from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding
“it was a lively picture of that cruelty and inhumanity in the nature of men which I have often contemplated with concern”
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, The Voyage, Wednesday, June 26, 1754 (Project Gutenberg #1146 (Murphy text))
Fielding's reflection after sailors and watermen mocked him as he was carried, helpless and emaciated, to the boat.
Citation: "it was a lively picture of that cruelty and inhumanity in the nature of men which I have often contemplated with concern" — Henry Fielding, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, The Voyage, Wednesday, June 26, 1754 (Project Gutenberg #1146 (Murphy text)). (id fielding-journal-of-a-voyage-to-lisbon-q2)
