Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit: I mean their education.
Every such return will bring the matter before us in a still more untractable form.
A Man is unfit for such a Place of Trust, who is of a sower untractable Nature, or has any other Passion that makes him uneasie to those who approach him.
As to the latter Species of Mankind, the Beauties, whether Male or Female, they are generally the most untractable People of all others.
If he observed a Man untractable to his Inferiors, he would find an Opportunity to take some favourable Notice of him, and render him insupportable.
THIS animal was long supposed to be the most savage and untractableof all quadrupeds: but it is now found that he may be tamed.
Indeed, the Wolf is by no means so untractable as is frequently supposed; but his temper is rather uncertain, and his destructive habits render him a dangerous pet.
But the plans of Belisarius were disconcerted by the untractable spirit of Arethas, who neither returned to the camp, nor sent any intelligence of his motions.
This young man was naturally of a ferocious disposition, which had been rendered quite untractable by the pride of birth and fortune, together with the licence of his education.
When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him.
A sour, untractablenature makes him uneasy to those who approach him.
Upon this Dogget bounc'd and grew almost as untractable as Wilks himself.
Thirdly, its nails are neither so flat nor so round; and, fourthly, because it is larger, and of a more sullen and untractable disposition.
It has proved the first effectual means of exciting attention to religion; it has subdued and softened the mind, and subjected it to divine teachings; and the once untractable rebel has become tamed into submission, penitence, and obedience.
If she could make those accounts more favourable, I should be better pleased; but I know what anuntractable brute the gout is, and the joy it takes in plaguing every body that is connected with it.
The parts of Mauritania which border on the Great Desert and the Atlantic Ocean, were filled with a fierce and untractable race of men, whose savage temper had been exasperated, rather than reclaimed, by their dread of the Roman arms.
Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our Colonies which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit.
As they are untractable and wandering animals, the most active and robust man cannot manage more than fifty of them.
But the pupil who is insensible of the benefits, must abhor the restraints, of education; and the solicitude of the queen, which affection rendered anxious and severe, offended the untractable nature of her son and his subjects.
