An History of Jamaica: With Observations on the Climate, Scenery, Trade, Productions, Negroes, Slave Trade, Diseases of Europeans, Customs, Manners, Snd Dispositions of the Inhabitants : to which is Added, an Illustration of the Advantages which are Likely to Result from the Abolition of the Slave TradeJ. Cawthorn, 1807 - 333 страници |
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... leaves them with pity , not unmixed with contempt , to their native state of degradation . There alone , they are at ease ; there they are at home ; and there , they must remain . But an acquaintance with the history of one's own ...
... leaves them with pity , not unmixed with contempt , to their native state of degradation . There alone , they are at ease ; there they are at home ; and there , they must remain . But an acquaintance with the history of one's own ...
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... leave to state , that this conduct has not pro- ceeded from any deficiency of information , from in- dolence , or from any want of anxiety , to render his performance as complete , and as valuable as possible . He has neglected no means ...
... leave to state , that this conduct has not pro- ceeded from any deficiency of information , from in- dolence , or from any want of anxiety , to render his performance as complete , and as valuable as possible . He has neglected no means ...
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... leave of these hospitable natives , and sailed again in quest of their favourite metal . The natives , though simple in their manners , were not in a state of barbarism . Their government was monarchical and hereditary ; and their chief ...
... leave of these hospitable natives , and sailed again in quest of their favourite metal . The natives , though simple in their manners , were not in a state of barbarism . Their government was monarchical and hereditary ; and their chief ...
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... leaves , in order to secure their women and children from the spray of the sea , all evince , that far from being in a state of nature , they possessed in abundance , not only the necessaries , but even the comforts and elegancies of ...
... leaves , in order to secure their women and children from the spray of the sea , all evince , that far from being in a state of nature , they possessed in abundance , not only the necessaries , but even the comforts and elegancies of ...
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... leaving him and his companions to perish by famine , addressed them in the following words , which he pronounced with a peculiar emphasis , as if he had been inspired : --- " To punish you for your cruel conduct , the Great Spirit ...
... leaving him and his companions to perish by famine , addressed them in the following words , which he pronounced with a peculiar emphasis , as if he had been inspired : --- " To punish you for your cruel conduct , the Great Spirit ...
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Страница 92 - Imbrown'd the noontide bowers ; thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm; Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste : Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed ; Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose...
Страница 291 - ... and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.
Страница 291 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent states.
Страница 288 - ... colonies ; and therefore they besought his majesty that he would take the most effectual measures to enforce due obedience to the laws and authority of the supreme Legislature.
Страница 285 - ... men, who exercise their reason, to believe that the divine Author of our existence intended' a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others, marked out by his infinite goodness and wisdom, as the objects of a legal domination never rightfully...
Страница 91 - When God hath shower'd the earth ; so lovely seem'd That landscape : and of pure, now purer air Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odonferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Страница 91 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness...
Страница 91 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Страница 91 - Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round. And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue...
Страница 291 - Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves.