Memoirs of a West-India PlanterHamilton, Adams, 1827 - 218 páginas |
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... heard . To this settled order of things the colonial question has formed , however , a mysterious excep- tion . Certain persons are not to be credited , because they were once planters and proprietors of slaves . How is this deviation ...
... heard . To this settled order of things the colonial question has formed , however , a mysterious excep- tion . Certain persons are not to be credited , because they were once planters and proprietors of slaves . How is this deviation ...
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... heard in the day , and before the day , when God arises to shake terribly the earth , and when he makes inquisition ... heard their cries : we may have turned a deaf ear , but not before those cries have been heard . For the rest the ...
... heard in the day , and before the day , when God arises to shake terribly the earth , and when he makes inquisition ... heard their cries : we may have turned a deaf ear , but not before those cries have been heard . For the rest the ...
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... heard , and did not hear ; I un- derstood , but did not understand . I put few things together , unless they had a direct reference to my amusements ; and , therefore , from evil communications I did not gather such deductions as might ...
... heard , and did not hear ; I un- derstood , but did not understand . I put few things together , unless they had a direct reference to my amusements ; and , therefore , from evil communications I did not gather such deductions as might ...
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... - stored basket . While we were eating , the sounds of distant music were heard . I had always been a lover of music ; and melody , however simple , thus stealing unexpectedly on the ear in a lovely solitude , had an 10 MEMOIRS OF A.
... - stored basket . While we were eating , the sounds of distant music were heard . I had always been a lover of music ; and melody , however simple , thus stealing unexpectedly on the ear in a lovely solitude , had an 10 MEMOIRS OF A.
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... , you say quite true ; indeed , I have heard of you before : but I much wish to ask , do you go to any place of worship ? I - * See Appendix III . C fear you are never seen at church .'- Cæsar shrugged WEST - INDIA PLANTER . 13.
... , you say quite true ; indeed , I have heard of you before : but I much wish to ask , do you go to any place of worship ? I - * See Appendix III . C fear you are never seen at church .'- Cæsar shrugged WEST - INDIA PLANTER . 13.
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Abolitionists Africa appeared Appendix attended Barbadoes Berbice Bishop Black British Cæsar called cause character child Christ Christian church clergy clergyman colonial colonists colour comfort crime cruelty Daniel death deck Demerara driver duties effect England evidence father favour feelings female flogged Frederic friends gang Gospel happy heard human instruction island Jamaica jobbers kind Kingston labour Lagoon lashes late liberty lived look Lord Mahali Majesty's Government manumission marked marriages married massa master middle passage mind misery missionary moral mother nature Negroes never night observed occasion oppression overseer parish party persons plantation planters poor principle punishment racter Ravenswood religion religious shew slave ship Slave Trade slavery society soon spirit Stewart sugar sugar islands Sunday superaddition supposed thing tion told West Indies West-India whip White wish witnessed
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Página 11 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Página xxxvi - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Página xxix - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 181 - Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee ; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die ; 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Página 129 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Página 161 - ALTHOUGH in the visible Church the evil be ever mingled with the good, and sometimes the evil have chief authority in the ministration of the Word and Sacraments ; yet forasmuch as they do not the same in their own name, but in Christ's, and do minister by his commission and authority, we may use their ministry, both in hearing the Word of God, and in receiving of the Sacraments.
Página 201 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery : but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.
Página 20 - Such are their natures and their passions such, But these disguise too little, those too much : So shall the man of power and pleasure...
Página 44 - To abolish a status which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially now when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to " shut the gates...
Página 46 - No man is by nature the property of another — The defendant is therefore by nature free — The rights of nature must be some way forfeited before they can be justly taken away — That the defendant has by any act forfeited the rights of nature we require to be proved ; and if no proof of such forfeiture can be given, we doubt not the justice of the court will declare him free.