An Account of Jamaica, and Its InhabitantsLongman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808 - 305 páginas |
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... seldom have cause to complain of drought , are annoyed with daily torrents , the low country is parched up with excessive drought . Nay , the author has known a property almost burnt up by drought , while the neighbouring one , divided ...
... seldom have cause to complain of drought , are annoyed with daily torrents , the low country is parched up with excessive drought . Nay , the author has known a property almost burnt up by drought , while the neighbouring one , divided ...
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... seldom , or never , visits the mountainous parts of the interior , nor are the negroes and brown people at all subject to it . deed some diseases peculiar to which something will be said when treating of the negroes . Besides the yellow ...
... seldom , or never , visits the mountainous parts of the interior , nor are the negroes and brown people at all subject to it . deed some diseases peculiar to which something will be said when treating of the negroes . Besides the yellow ...
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... seldom had many undecided cases on hand . The governor's income may be about 10,0007 . currency , or rather better than 7,000l . sterling ; the half of which sum arises out of his perqui- sites of office , and the pen or farin of which ...
... seldom had many undecided cases on hand . The governor's income may be about 10,0007 . currency , or rather better than 7,000l . sterling ; the half of which sum arises out of his perqui- sites of office , and the pen or farin of which ...
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... seldom more to do than giving its voice in the passing of them . The persons of the members are sacred from arrest , the same as the British representatives . · The assembly of Jamaica has the character of being an independent and ...
... seldom more to do than giving its voice in the passing of them . The persons of the members are sacred from arrest , the same as the British representatives . · The assembly of Jamaica has the character of being an independent and ...
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... the assize courts are usually gentlemen who are magistrates of the county ; these , seldom being bred to the law , cannot be supposed to be very competent to decide in com plex and intricate cases , where many nice points of 40.
... the assize courts are usually gentlemen who are magistrates of the county ; these , seldom being bred to the law , cannot be supposed to be very competent to decide in com plex and intricate cases , where many nice points of 40.
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Página 159 - I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Página 159 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden...
Página 159 - Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, — if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweet draught, and, if hungry, ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Página 194 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Página 257 - ... may be swept off by its infatuation before the crime is detected ; for, strange as it may appear, so much do the negroes stand in awe of those obeah professors, so much do they dread their malice and their power, that, though knowing the havoc they have made, and are still making, they are afraid to discover them to the whites ; and others perhaps, are in league with them for sinister purposes of mischief and revenge. A negro under...
Página 282 - Troops continued to pour in from adjacent and distant posts ; and, as the few soldiers with the king refused to fire on those surrounding the palace, the people, though pitying the king, did not take up arms in his...
Página 159 - Not haughty, nor arrogant, nor supercilious, they are full of courtesy, and fond of society; more liable in general to err than man, but in general also more virtuous, and performing more good actions, than he. To a woman , whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer.
Página 262 - ... houses, and drink with them ; the distance between them appears to be annihilated for the moment, like the familiar footing on which the Roman slaves were with their masters at the feast of the Saturnalia...
Página 261 - ... have little time to devote to amusement, but such occasions as offer they eagerly embrace. Plays, as they call them, are their principal and favourite one. This is an assemblage of both sexes, dressed out for the occasion, who form a ring round a male and female dancer, who perform to the music of drums and the songs of the other females of the party, one alternately going over the song, while her companions repeat in chorus. Both the singers and dancers shew the exactest precision as to time...
Página 232 - ... but because the former is a greater rarity than the latter. They cannot afford to indulge themselves with a fowl or a duck, except upon particular occasions." " The common dress of the male slaves is an Osnaburgh or check frock, and a pair of Osnaburgh or sheeting trowsers, with a coarse hat. That of the women is an Osnaburgh or coarse linen shift, a petticoat made of various stuff, according to their taste and circumstances, and a handkerchief tied round their heads. Both men and women are also...