A Brief Account, Together with Observations, Made During a Visit in the West Indies, and a Tour Through the United States of America, in Parts of the Years 1832-3: Together with a Statistical Account of Upper CanadaG.H. Hackstaff, printer, 1836 - 272 頁 |
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... excellent fraternity , were extremely sober and industrious . His butler had lately died , and he gave him a handsome funeral , for he had served him faithfully for many years , and the master was anx- ious to testify his respect for ...
... excellent fraternity , were extremely sober and industrious . His butler had lately died , and he gave him a handsome funeral , for he had served him faithfully for many years , and the master was anx- ious to testify his respect for ...
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... wine of their own making ; and fruit in trays , they 、 were very excellent . Indeed it was altogether a very gratifying spectacle , and one I little expected to witness when I left England . That this dance should take WEST INDIES . 21.
... wine of their own making ; and fruit in trays , they 、 were very excellent . Indeed it was altogether a very gratifying spectacle , and one I little expected to witness when I left England . That this dance should take WEST INDIES . 21.
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... excellent vegetable . On returning to Vaucluse at night , I perceived something dark across the road ; present- ly the gig was stopped by a negro , who said the road was not passable , that it was necessary to take a circuitous route ...
... excellent vegetable . On returning to Vaucluse at night , I perceived something dark across the road ; present- ly the gig was stopped by a negro , who said the road was not passable , that it was necessary to take a circuitous route ...
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... seems as devoted to the interests of science , as to the prosperity of Barbados . He is greatly esteemed by all classes of the people . He possesses an excellent . museum of natural curiosities , consisting of great varie- CHAPTER III. ...
... seems as devoted to the interests of science , as to the prosperity of Barbados . He is greatly esteemed by all classes of the people . He possesses an excellent . museum of natural curiosities , consisting of great varie- CHAPTER III. ...
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... excellent spot for a maroon party . The huge rock termed Social , hangs pendent from the highest over - hanging brink , out of which several trees are grow- ing , forming a spacious canopy , an effectual screen from the sun , and a ...
... excellent spot for a maroon party . The huge rock termed Social , hangs pendent from the highest over - hanging brink , out of which several trees are grow- ing , forming a spacious canopy , an effectual screen from the sun , and a ...
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第 31 頁 - How beautiful this night! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love had spread To curtain her sleeping world.
第 103 頁 - Such is the strength with which population shoots in that part of the world, that state the numbers as high as we will, whilst the dispute continues, the exaggeration ends.
第 11 頁 - Come, bright improvement! on the car of time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
第 111 頁 - And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks. Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes, Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back, The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law; The world affords no law to make thee rich; Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
第 31 頁 - Robed in a garment of untrodden snow ; Yon darksome rocks, whence icicles depend, So stainless, that their white and glittering spires Tinge not the moon's pure beam ; yon castled steep, Whose banner hangeth o'er the time-worn tower So idly, that rapt fancy deemeth it A metaphor of peace ; — all form a scene Where musing solitude might love to lift Her soul above this sphere of earthliness ; Where silence undisturbed might watch alone, So cold, so bright, so still.
第 63 頁 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.