The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Том 2John Stockdale, 1807 - 616 страници |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 100.
Страница viii
... Nature and Origin . Restrictions on the Colonists enumerated ; and the Benefits resulting therefrom to the Mother - Country pointed out and illustrated . — Advantages which would accrue to the Planter , the Revenue , and the Publick ...
... Nature and Origin . Restrictions on the Colonists enumerated ; and the Benefits resulting therefrom to the Mother - Country pointed out and illustrated . — Advantages which would accrue to the Planter , the Revenue , and the Publick ...
Страница 4
... natural or supposed rights of which they were deprived in their native country . I extend this description to persons of opposite political sentiments and connec- tions , to loyalists as well as to republicans : for it is hoped that ...
... natural or supposed rights of which they were deprived in their native country . I extend this description to persons of opposite political sentiments and connec- tions , to loyalists as well as to republicans : for it is hoped that ...
Страница 5
... Nature has distri- buted the gifts of genius more equally and ge- nerally than is commonly imagined : it is cul- tivation and favour that ripen and bring them to perfection . The British . Navy and Army likewise contribute considerably ...
... Nature has distri- buted the gifts of genius more equally and ge- nerally than is commonly imagined : it is cul- tivation and favour that ripen and bring them to perfection . The British . Navy and Army likewise contribute considerably ...
Страница 8
... nature ) " is established in any part of the world , those who are free are 66 66 by far the most proud and jealous of their free- " dom . Freedom is to them not only an enjoy " ment , but a kind of rank and privilege . Not 66 seeing ...
... nature ) " is established in any part of the world , those who are free are 66 66 by far the most proud and jealous of their free- " dom . Freedom is to them not only an enjoy " ment , but a kind of rank and privilege . Not 66 seeing ...
Страница 9
... nature - frankness , sociability , be- nevolence , and generosity . In no part of the globe is the virtue of hospitality more generally prevalent , than in the British Sugar Islands . The gates of the planter are always open to the ...
... nature - frankness , sociability , be- nevolence , and generosity . In no part of the globe is the virtue of hospitality more generally prevalent , than in the British Sugar Islands . The gates of the planter are always open to the ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
acre admit Africa America annually appears assembly authority afore authority aforesaid Barbadoes Black BOOK Britain British sugar British West Indies cacao called canes Cape CHAP circumstances cloves coffee colonies colour common commonly council court cultivation death degree duties Eboes encrease England English Europe expence exported favour foreign frequently further enacted gallons give Gold Coast governor groes Guiney Hispaniola hogsheads imported indigo inhabitants Jamaica Koromantyn labour land Mandingoes manner manufacture master means melasses ment Mestize mother-country Mulatto nation native nature Negroes neral Obeah observed overseer owner parish parliament person plant plantation planters ports possessed pounds produce profits provisions publick punishment purchase quantity regulations render settlement ships slave or slaves Slave Trade slavery sold species sterling suffer sufficient sugar islands supply supposed tion Tortola trees vessels West Indian Whidah White whole Windward Islands
Популярни откъси
Страница 525 - States only, it being expressly agreed and declared, that during the continuance of this article, the United States will prohibit and restrain the carrying any molasses, sugar, coffee, cocoa or cotton in American vessels, either from his Majesty's islands, or from the United States to any part of the world except the United States, reasonable sea-stores excepted.
Страница 8 - ... those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Страница 441 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Страница 448 - English woollen and other manufactures and commodities, rendering the navigation to and from the same more safe and cheap, and making this kingdom a staple, not only of the commodities of those plantations, but also of the commodities of other countries and places, for the supplying of them; and it being the usage of other nations to keep their plantations trade to themselves.
Страница 493 - America, it must be a considerable time before any convention or treaty for establishing and regulating the trade and intercourse between Great Britain and the said United States of America, upon a permanent foundation can be concluded...
Страница 566 - ... alone ; and by the third, to bring them to her in a raw or unmanufactured state, that her own manufacturers might secure to themselves all the advantages arising from their further improvement This latter principle was carried so far in the colonial system of...
Страница 525 - American vessels shall be subject there to no other or higher tonnage duties or charges than shall be payable by British vessels in the ports of the United States ; and that the cargoes of the said American vessels shall be subject...
Страница 453 - Rosea in the island of Dominica, and in the port of Nassau in the island of New Providence, one of the Bahama islands, under certain regulations and restrictions...
Страница 113 - In the year 1760, when a very formidable insurrection of the Koromantyn or Gold Coast negroes broke out in the parish of St. Mary, and spread through almost every other district of the island, an old...
Страница 570 - To prohibit a great people from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and their industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.