Four Years' Residence in the West IndiesWilliam Kidd, 1830 - 693 ページ |
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amusing Anguilla Antigua Antilles appearance appointed Governor arrived ball Barbadian Barbados beautiful Bitt breakfast breeze Bridgetown called canes Captain Carenage chapel CHAPTER Charaibs church Codrington Codrington College Colonel colony colored commenced contains creoles cultivated dance dollars Dominica emancipation England English exports fair fish Fort Charlotte French garrison gentlemen Gouyave Grenada happy hhds Hill horses hundred hurricane Indians inhabitants island of St Jamaica Kingstown Kitts ladies land Leeward Islands letter lively Lucia Martinique Massa Methodists militia Montserrat morning Mount Young mountain negroes never night Number of slaves o'clock officers party persons plantations planters Population present reader residence ride road sail scene scenery schooner seen servant ship slavery slaves Society sugar thee thing thou tion town trees Trinidad troops tropic vessel Vincent visited West Indies whites young
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523 ページ - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart, Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange: Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
117 ページ - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
321 ページ - How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea, For then sweet dreams of other days arise, And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee.
546 ページ - Guam use it for bread. They gather it when full grown, while it is green and hard: then they bake it in an oven, which scorcheth the rind, and makes it black; but they scrape off the outside black crust, and there remains a tender thin crust; and the inside is soft, tender and white, like the crumb of a penny loaf.
550 ページ - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
131 ページ - ... all of them to be under the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience ; who shall be obliged to study and practice physic and chirurgery, as well as divinity ; that by the apparent usefulness of the former to all mankind, they may both endear themselves to the people, and have the better opportunities of doing good to men's souls, whilst they are taking care of their bodies ; but the particulars of the constitution I leave to the Society, composed of wise and good men.
248 ページ - And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down. Oft liquid lakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the fiery springs that boil below.
534 ページ - This dreadful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror : the harbour is covered •with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place, heaps of earth and trunks of trees in another, deep gullies from torrents of water, and the dead and dying bodies of men, women, and children, half buried, and scattered about, where streets but a few hours before were, present...
534 ページ - ... destruction — the roofs of houses are carried to vast distances from their walls, which are beaten to the ground, burying their inhabitants under them — large trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches shivered off, and driven through the air in every direction, with immense velocity — every tree and shrub that withstands the shock, is stripped of its boughs and foliage — plants and grass are laid flat on the earth — luxuriant spring is changed in a moment to dreary winter.