Canada: Historical, المجلد 2Clarendon Press, 1890 - 365 من الصفحات |
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... contained European settlers from the beginnings of modern history , they have become in the main a home for the African negro , supplemented in later times to a certain extent by the Indian coolie . Two European nations only , the ...
... contained European settlers from the beginnings of modern history , they have become in the main a home for the African negro , supplemented in later times to a certain extent by the Indian coolie . Two European nations only , the ...
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... contain little or nothing of general interest . The instance usually quoted is contained in Bryan Edwards ' History of the West Indies , Bk . 3 , chap . 4 , note . In the first American war a Ber- mudian ship with seventy slaves on ...
... contain little or nothing of general interest . The instance usually quoted is contained in Bryan Edwards ' History of the West Indies , Bk . 3 , chap . 4 , note . In the first American war a Ber- mudian ship with seventy slaves on ...
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... contained within their coral ring , difficult to enter , secure when entered , a little English home between England and England's children on either side of the Atlantic , the history of these islands is curiously attractive . Had they ...
... contained within their coral ring , difficult to enter , secure when entered , a little English home between England and England's children on either side of the Atlantic , the history of these islands is curiously attractive . Had they ...
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... contained various provisions relating to the West Indies , signed only to be broken . In or about the same year English logcutters began to follow their trade off the coast of Yucatan , a trade which was afterwards to bring about the ...
... contained various provisions relating to the West Indies , signed only to be broken . In or about the same year English logcutters began to follow their trade off the coast of Yucatan , a trade which was afterwards to bring about the ...
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... contained nearly 13,000 whites and nearly 83,000 slaves . In Jamaica in 1658 , three years after it had been taken by the English , according to rough calculations there were said to be 1500 slaves to 4500 whites . In forty years ' time ...
... contained nearly 13,000 whites and nearly 83,000 slaves . In Jamaica in 1658 , three years after it had been taken by the English , according to rough calculations there were said to be 1500 slaves to 4500 whites . In forty years ' time ...
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الصفحة 236 - For a while, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the...
الصفحة 306 - Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which His subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the Territory of Spain in that part of the world...
الصفحة 15 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
الصفحة 97 - We have done the like to the Windward English Islands; and both in England and Scotland and Ireland, you will have what men and women we can well transport.
الصفحة 1 - A New English Dictionary, on Historical Principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by James AH Murray, LL.D., President of the Philological Society; with the assistance of many Scholars and men of Science.
الصفحة 64 - But though the policy of Great Britain with regard to the trade of her colonies has been dictated by the same mercantile spirit as that of other nations, it has, however, upon the whole, been less illiberal and oppressive than that of any of them.
الصفحة 64 - ... with all the other colonies of France, though it no doubt retarded, had not been able to stop its progress altogether. The course of its prosperity returned as soon as it was relieved from that oppression. It is now the most important of the sugar colonies of the West Indies, and its produce is said to be greater than that of all the English sugar colonies put together.
الصفحة 304 - ... situated in the West Indies, or in any part of America, which the said King of Great Britain and His subjects do at present hold and possess, so...
الصفحة 266 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.