The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 páginas |
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... civilisation . We have done enough . Let them do now what they can or please . ' Virtually this is what England says to the West Indians , or would say if despair made them actively troublesome , notwith- standing Exhibitions and ...
... civilisation . We have done enough . Let them do now what they can or please . ' Virtually this is what England says to the West Indians , or would say if despair made them actively troublesome , notwith- standing Exhibitions and ...
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... civilisation is old - fashioned , and has none of the pushing manners which belong to younger and perhaps more thriving communities . The West Indians themselves , though they may be deficient in energy , are uniformly ladies and ...
... civilisation is old - fashioned , and has none of the pushing manners which belong to younger and perhaps more thriving communities . The West Indians themselves , though they may be deficient in energy , are uniformly ladies and ...
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... civilisation follow as an inevitable fruit , all was now silence . And this was an English Crown colony , as rich in resources as any area of soil of equal size in the world . England had demanded and seized the responsibility of ...
... civilisation follow as an inevitable fruit , all was now silence . And this was an English Crown colony , as rich in resources as any area of soil of equal size in the world . England had demanded and seized the responsibility of ...
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... civilisation as yet has taken but feeble root , and is only beginning to grow . It may thrive yet if those who have troubled all the earth will consent for another century to take their industry elsewhere . The ship's galley was waiting ...
... civilisation as yet has taken but feeble root , and is only beginning to grow . It may thrive yet if those who have troubled all the earth will consent for another century to take their industry elsewhere . The ship's galley was waiting ...
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... civilisation to take root and grow , and our road led us through jungles of flowering shrubs which were running wild over what had been once cultivated estates . Stranger still ( for one associates colonial life instinctively with what ...
... civilisation to take root and grow , and our road led us through jungles of flowering shrubs which were running wild over what had been once cultivated estates . Stranger still ( for one associates colonial life instinctively with what ...
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