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... and deliberate together with the same regard for each other's welfare which has been shown in the late conference in London . Events mock at human foresight , and nothing is cer- B THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES . CHAPTER I. Colonial.
... and deliberate together with the same regard for each other's welfare which has been shown in the late conference in London . Events mock at human foresight , and nothing is cer- B THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES . CHAPTER I. Colonial.
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... same regard for each other's welfare which has been shown in the late conference in London . Events mock at human foresight , and nothing is cer- B tain but the unforeseen . Constitutional government and an independent of the West Indies.
... same regard for each other's welfare which has been shown in the late conference in London . Events mock at human foresight , and nothing is cer- B tain but the unforeseen . Constitutional government and an independent of the West Indies.
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... them I found nothing but modern statistics pointing to dreary conclu- sions , and in the place of any human interest long stories WEST INDIAN HISTORY 27 of constitutions , suffrages , representative 26 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
... them I found nothing but modern statistics pointing to dreary conclu- sions , and in the place of any human interest long stories WEST INDIAN HISTORY 27 of constitutions , suffrages , representative 26 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
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... human race , to be treated to a short shrift whenever found and caught . British seamen who fell into their hands were carried before the Inquisition at Lima or Carthagena and burnt at the stake as heretics . Four of Drake's crew were ...
... human race , to be treated to a short shrift whenever found and caught . British seamen who fell into their hands were carried before the Inquisition at Lima or Carthagena and burnt at the stake as heretics . Four of Drake's crew were ...
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... human knowledge or to human worth ? Lord Chatham may stand as a lonely exception . But except Chatham who is there ? Not one that I know of . Oratory is the spendthrift sister of the arts , which decks itself like a strumpet with the ...
... human knowledge or to human worth ? Lord Chatham may stand as a lonely exception . But except Chatham who is there ? Not one that I know of . Oratory is the spendthrift sister of the arts , which decks itself like a strumpet with the ...
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