The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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... extension of the suffrage throughout the Empire has been to show that being one the British people everywhere intend to remain one . COLONIAL SELF - GOVERNMENT 3 With the same blood , 2 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
... extension of the suffrage throughout the Empire has been to show that being one the British people everywhere intend to remain one . COLONIAL SELF - GOVERNMENT 3 With the same blood , 2 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
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... remain attached to us if we enable them to leave us when they please . The Crown , therefore , as in India , rules directly by the police and the army . And there are colonies which are neither one nor the other , where our own people ...
... remain attached to us if we enable them to leave us when they please . The Crown , therefore , as in India , rules directly by the police and the army . And there are colonies which are neither one nor the other , where our own people ...
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... remain there till I had given it all the time which I could spare , thence to go on to Jamaica , and from Jamaica to return at leisure round the Antilles . But it had been ascertained that in Jamaica there was small - pox . I suppose ...
... remain there till I had given it all the time which I could spare , thence to go on to Jamaica , and from Jamaica to return at leisure round the Antilles . But it had been ascertained that in Jamaica there was small - pox . I suppose ...
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... remain . The con- ditions were never likely to arise which would bring back a European population ; but a governor who was a sensible man , who would reside and use his natural influence , could manage it with perfect ease . The island ...
... remain . The con- ditions were never likely to arise which would bring back a European population ; but a governor who was a sensible man , who would reside and use his natural influence , could manage it with perfect ease . The island ...
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... remain swinging in the air and thicken and prosper . The leap he explained by the wind . I retained a suspicion that the wind had been assisted by some aspiring energy in the plant itself , so bold it was and so ambitious . The But the ...
... remain swinging in the air and thicken and prosper . The leap he explained by the wind . I retained a suspicion that the wind had been assisted by some aspiring energy in the plant itself , so bold it was and so ambitious . The But the ...
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