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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAmerican Antilles asked Barbadoes beautiful boat Bridgetown British brought called Captain Caribbean Sea Caribs Catholic Cherry Garden Church civilisation colonies colour constitution Coolie Cuba Cuban cultivated Dominica Empire England English feet fish forest French friends garden gentleman gone GORDON RIOTS Government House governor Grenada grow harbour Havana Hayti heard horses human hundred interest Ireland Irish island Jacmel Jamaica Kingston Labat lady land leave living looked Lucia Martinique ment miles morning mountains mulattoes natural negro never numbers officers once orange ourselves passed perhaps persons planted planters political Port of Spain Port Royal possession prosperity race road Rodney Roseau round scene seen self-government ship shore side slavery slaves Spain Spaniards Spanish Spenser St sugar things thousand tion told town trade trees Trinidad tropical West Indian West Indies wished Popular passagesPage 220 - Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. Page 53 - I tried to cheer her, the poor young thing she died ; But as I lay a-gasping, a Bristol sail came by, And brought me home to England here, to beg until I die. And now I'm old and going — I'm sure I can't tell where ; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there : If I might but be a sea dove, I'd fly across the main, To the pleasant Isle of Aves, to look at it once again. Page 53 - And the colibris and parrots they were gorgeous to behold; And the negro maids to Aves from bondage fast did flee, To welcome gallant sailors, a-sweeping in from sea. Oh sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees, With a negro lass to fan you, while you listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside, that never touched the shore. Page 52 - England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I; And such a port for mariners I ne'er shall see again As the pleasant Isle of Aves, beside the Spanish main. Page 153 - The leading of the wise few, the willing obedience of the many, is the beginning and end of all right action. Secure this, and you secure everything. Fail to secure it, and, be your liberties as wide as you can make them, no success is possible. Page 152 - If none of these are attainable, even a Sancho Panza would do. Send him out with no more instructions than the knight of La Mancha gave Sancho — to fear God and do his duty. Put him on his metal. Promise him the respect and praise of all good men if he does well ; and if he calls to his help intelligent persons who understand the cultivation of soils and the management of men, in half a score of years Dominica would be the brightest gem of the Antilles. Page 43 - Their yams and cassava grow without effort, for the soil is easily worked and inexhaustibly fertile. The curse is taken off from nature, and like Adam again they are under the covenant of innocence. Morals in the technical sense they have none, but they cannot be said to sin, because they have no knowledge of a law, and therefore they can commit no breach of the law. They are naked and not ashamed. Page 304 - In the English islands they are innocently happy in the unconsciousness of the obligations of morality. They eat, drink, sleep, and smoke, and do the least in the way of work that they can. They have no ideas of duty, and therefore are not made uneasy by neglecting it. One or other of them occasionally rises in the legal or other profession, but there is no sign, not the slightest, that the generality of the race are improving either in intelligence or moral habits ; all the evidence is the other... Page 42 - I learnt the first authentic particulars of the present manner of life of these much misunderstood people. Evidently they belonged to a race far inferior to the Zulus and Caffres, whom I had known in South Africa. They were more coarsely formed in limb and feature. They would have been slaves in their own country if they had not been brought to ours, and at the worst had lost nothing by the change. Page 53 - But Scripture saith, an ending to all fine things must be ; So the King's ships sailed on Aves, and quite put down were we. All day we fought like bulldogs, but they burst the booms at night; And I fled in a piragua, sore wounded, from the fight. 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