The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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... better for them and for us . By the constitutions which had been conferred upon them , Australia and Canada , New Zealand and the Cape , were assumed to be practically gone . The same measures were to be taken with the West Indies ...
... better for them and for us . By the constitutions which had been conferred upon them , Australia and Canada , New Zealand and the Cape , were assumed to be practically gone . The same measures were to be taken with the West Indies ...
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... better fitted for such treatment or better deserving it - the West Indies will be the scene of the most brilliant cantos . For England to allow them to drift away from her because they have no immediate marketable value would be a sign ...
... better fitted for such treatment or better deserving it - the West Indies will be the scene of the most brilliant cantos . For England to allow them to drift away from her because they have no immediate marketable value would be a sign ...
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... better if it studied its own faults and endeavoured to mend them , instead of comparing itself with others to its own advantage . This only was clear to me in thinking over what Mr. Glad- stone was reported to have said , and in ...
... better if it studied its own faults and endeavoured to mend them , instead of comparing itself with others to its own advantage . This only was clear to me in thinking over what Mr. Glad- stone was reported to have said , and in ...
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... better perhaps than from anyone , I could learn how far the passionate complaints which I had heard about the state of the islands were to be listened to as accounts of actual fact . I found , however , that I must postpone both this ...
... better perhaps than from anyone , I could learn how far the passionate complaints which I had heard about the state of the islands were to be listened to as accounts of actual fact . I found , however , that I must postpone both this ...
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... enterprising Englishman with capital and intelligence might do the same . I know also that in no part of the West Indies are the blacks happier or better off . But notwithstanding the Nature and the dark race had been simply allowed by.
... enterprising Englishman with capital and intelligence might do the same . I know also that in no part of the West Indies are the blacks happier or better off . But notwithstanding the Nature and the dark race had been simply allowed by.
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