The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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Page 24
... turn back from these lamentations to the brilliant period of past West Indian history . With the planters of the present it was all sugar - sugar and the lazy blacks who were England's darlings and would not work for them . The ...
... turn back from these lamentations to the brilliant period of past West Indian history . With the planters of the present it was all sugar - sugar and the lazy blacks who were England's darlings and would not work for them . The ...
Page 43
... turns out well which begins with a legal marriage . The children scramble up anyhow , and shift for themselves like chickens as soon as they are able to peck . Many die in this way by eating unwholesome food , but also many live , and ...
... turns out well which begins with a legal marriage . The children scramble up anyhow , and shift for themselves like chickens as soon as they are able to peck . Many die in this way by eating unwholesome food , but also many live , and ...
Page 46
... turn to profit natural advantages , it would be a rich and powerful colony . In itself it was all that man could desire . To live there was to live in paradise . ' Labat found the island occupied by countrymen of his own , paisans aisez ...
... turn to profit natural advantages , it would be a rich and powerful colony . In itself it was all that man could desire . To live there was to live in paradise . ' Labat found the island occupied by countrymen of his own , paisans aisez ...
Page 60
... turns of a kaleidoscope ; you got a new pattern , but it was made of the same pieces , and things went on much as before . If they wanted political liberty I did not doubt that they would get it if they were loud and persistent enough ...
... turns of a kaleidoscope ; you got a new pattern , but it was made of the same pieces , and things went on much as before . If they wanted political liberty I did not doubt that they would get it if they were loud and persistent enough ...
Page 86
... turn to a waking reality ; and unless under the Indian system , which our rulers will never try unless the democracy orders them to adopt it , the English interest will come to an end . The English have proved in India that they can ...
... turn to a waking reality ; and unless under the Indian system , which our rulers will never try unless the democracy orders them to adopt it , the English interest will come to an end . The English have proved in India that they can ...
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