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... ladies of the forest , the birch trees beside the line about Farn- borough , were hung with jewels of ice , and glittered like a fretwork of purple and silver . It was like escaping out of a nightmare into happy healthy England once ...
... ladies of the forest , the birch trees beside the line about Farn- borough , were hung with jewels of ice , and glittered like a fretwork of purple and silver . It was like escaping out of a nightmare into happy healthy England once ...
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... ladies . For a brief interval care and anxiety had spread their wings and flown away , and existence itself became delightful . There was a young scientific man on board who infe- rested me much . He had been sent out from Kew to take ...
... ladies . For a brief interval care and anxiety had spread their wings and flown away , and existence itself became delightful . There was a young scientific man on board who infe- rested me much . He had been sent out from Kew to take ...
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... well - to - do , for the boy had been in Europe to be educated . The officers on board and some of the ladies played with him as they would play PASSENGERS 25 with a monkey . He had little more 24 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
... well - to - do , for the boy had been in Europe to be educated . The officers on board and some of the ladies played with him as they would play PASSENGERS 25 with a monkey . He had little more 24 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
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... lady . This is one of the most sinister features in the present state of social life there . Small personalities cropped up now and then . We had representatives of all professions among us except the Church of England clergy . Of them ...
... lady . This is one of the most sinister features in the present state of social life there . Small personalities cropped up now and then . We had representatives of all professions among us except the Church of England clergy . Of them ...
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... lady were all that was polite and hospitable . They invited me to make their house my home during my stay , and more charming host and hostess it would have been impossible to find or wish for . There was not the state which Labat ...
... lady were all that was polite and hospitable . They invited me to make their house my home during my stay , and more charming host and hostess it would have been impossible to find or wish for . There was not the state which Labat ...
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Page 60 - I'm old and going : I'm sure I can't tell where. One comfort is, this world's so hard I can't be worse off there. If I might but be a sea dove, I'd fly across the main To the pleasant Isle of Aves to look at it once again.
Page 60 - And the colibris and parrots they were gorgeous to behold; And the negro maids to Aves from bondage fast did flee, To welcome gallant sailors, a-sweeping in from sea. Oh sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze A-swing...
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Page 59 - England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I; And such a port for mariners I ne'er shall see again As the pleasant Isle of Aves, beside the Spanish main.
Page 60 - A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees, With a negro lass to fan you, while you listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside, that never touched the shore.
Page 325 - There has been no saint in the West Indies since Las Casas, no hero unless philonegro enthusiasm can make one out of Toussaint. There are no people there in the true sense of the word, with a character and purpose of their own...
Page 123 - A West Indian self-governed Dominion is possible only with a full negro vote. If the whites are to combine, so will the blacks. It will be a rule by the blacks and for the blacks. Let a generation or two pass by and carry away with them the old traditions, and an English governor-general will be found presiding over a black council, delivering the speeches made for him by a black prime minister ; and how long could this endure ? No English gentleman would consent to occupy so absurd a situation.
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Page 49 - The curse is taken off from nature, and like Adam again they are under the covenant of innocence. Morals in the technical sense they have none, but they cannot be said to sin, because they have no knowledge of a law, and therefore they can commit no breach of the law. They are naked and not ashamed.