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 Trade |
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... history of one's own country , whether such by birth , or by choice , is pro- ductive of still more important advantages . It not only gives a man an interest in the scenes continu- But ally passing before him , increases his acquaintance .
... history of one's own country , whether such by birth , or by choice , is pro- ductive of still more important advantages . It not only gives a man an interest in the scenes continu- But ally passing before him , increases his acquaintance .
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... increases his acquaintance . with the inanimate objects constantly presented to his view , and endears to his remembrance the past events of his life , but by enlarging his mind , ad- vancing his knowledge , and increasing his experi ...
... increases his acquaintance . with the inanimate objects constantly presented to his view , and endears to his remembrance the past events of his life , but by enlarging his mind , ad- vancing his knowledge , and increasing his experi ...
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... increases the usefulness of individuals ; and if , from that conciseness which has been anxiously studied , the knowledge contained in them shall be more easily attained , and more exten- sively circulated , the Author's labour and ...
... increases the usefulness of individuals ; and if , from that conciseness which has been anxiously studied , the knowledge contained in them shall be more easily attained , and more exten- sively circulated , the Author's labour and ...
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... increased the happiness of the human race , is a question , which , from our limited experience , it would be improper to decide . Every event which influences the conduct and the condition of multitudes , must be pro- ductive of ...
... increased the happiness of the human race , is a question , which , from our limited experience , it would be improper to decide . Every event which influences the conduct and the condition of multitudes , must be pro- ductive of ...
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... increase his ardour . He now made application to several other maritime nations of Europe , and , with that confidence which great minds , when sincere , usually entertain , proposed his schemes , and explained his expectations . There ...
... increase his ardour . He now made application to several other maritime nations of Europe , and , with that confidence which great minds , when sincere , usually entertain , proposed his schemes , and explained his expectations . There ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.