Six Months in the West Indies in 1825John Murray, 1832 - 311 pages |
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Page 275 - It is necessary to coerce the negligent, to restrain the violent, and to aid the weak and deficient, by the overruling plenitude of her power.
Page 32 - The island is divided into three sorts of men, viz. masters, servants, and slaves. The slaves and their posterity, being subject to their masters for ever, are kept and preserved with greater care than the servants, who are theirs but for five years, according to the law of the island.
Page 275 - ... for all things at home, immediately and by no other instrument than the executive power. The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all without annihilating any. As all these provincial legislatures are only co-ordinate to each other, they ought all to be subordinate to her; else they can neither preserve mutual peace nor hope for...
Page 33 - Overseer; if they resist their time is doubled. I have seen an Overseer beat a servant with a cane about the head till the blood has followed for a fault that is not worth the speaking of ; and yet he must have patience, or worse will follow.
Page 80 - Whether the creating of wants be not the likeliest way to produce industry in a people ? And whether, if our peasants were accustomed to eat beef and wear shoes, they would not be more industrious?
Page 125 - Barbadoes, or a steamboat started between the islands, a thousand letters would be written where there are one hundred now, and a hundred persons would interchange visits where ten hardly do at present. I want a book and cannot borrow it; I would purchase it instantly from my bookseller in my neighbourhood, but I may not think it worth my while to send for it over the ocean, when, with every risk, I must wait at the least three months for it. The moral consequences of this system are even more to...
Page 109 - No man can conceive from dry description alone the magical beauty of these glorious creatures; so far from their effects having been exaggerated by travellers, I can say that I never read an account in prose or verse which in the least prepared me for the reality. There are two sorts, the small fly which flits in and out in the air, the body of which I have never examined; and a kind of beetle, which keeps more to the woods, and is somewhat more stationary, like our glow-worm. This last has two broad...
Page 141 - Beautiful islands ! where the green Which Nature wears was never seen 'Neath zone of Europe ; where the hue Of sea and heaven is such a blue As England dreams not ; where the night Is all irradiate with the light Of starlike moons, which, hung on high, Breathe and quiver in the sky...
Page 285 - For hedge nor ditch they spared not, But after her they hie them ; A cobweb over them they throw, To shield the wind if it should blow ; Themselves they wisely could bestow Lest any should espy them.
Page 61 - Misericordia ! Ave Maria !" answered the smuggler. It was a considerable time before the fellow could be brought back to his senses, when he gave this account of the matter; — that they saw a vessel apparently following them, with only two persons on board, and steering, without a single sail, directly in the teeth of the wind...