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... commencement of the volume I have chosen a light style , because I wished to entertain the reader , and to avoid the often tedious and dry monotony of a common book of travels ; and this style I have continued to the conclusion , except ...
... commencement of the volume I have chosen a light style , because I wished to entertain the reader , and to avoid the often tedious and dry monotony of a common book of travels ; and this style I have continued to the conclusion , except ...
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... commencement to its conclusion , and who had been an active participator in its dangers . The narrative respecting the explosion of Mount Souffrière has also an equal claim to authenticity , as I obtained it from a gentleman who had ...
... commencement to its conclusion , and who had been an active participator in its dangers . The narrative respecting the explosion of Mount Souffrière has also an equal claim to authenticity , as I obtained it from a gentleman who had ...
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... commence the work ; to complete it will require more . The Geography and Geology , given in the Appendix , will tend to enhance my claim , and the lithographic views , which are faithful delineations of the places they are intended to ...
... commence the work ; to complete it will require more . The Geography and Geology , given in the Appendix , will tend to enhance my claim , and the lithographic views , which are faithful delineations of the places they are intended to ...
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... commence- ment of our preparations to our departure , I felt a kind of mournful melancholy in visiting the familiar scenes around me , which I was so soon about to leave . The fertile meadows , the rich vallies , the smooth and silvery ...
... commence- ment of our preparations to our departure , I felt a kind of mournful melancholy in visiting the familiar scenes around me , which I was so soon about to leave . The fertile meadows , the rich vallies , the smooth and silvery ...
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... and therefore made no opposition ; and so we all trudged on to the great house , where the reader will find us at the commencement of the next chapter . CHAPTER VII . HOSPITALITY AND CHARACTER OF THE BARBADIANS . 44 FOUR YEARS ' RESIDENCE.
... and therefore made no opposition ; and so we all trudged on to the great house , where the reader will find us at the commencement of the next chapter . CHAPTER VII . HOSPITALITY AND CHARACTER OF THE BARBADIANS . 44 FOUR YEARS ' RESIDENCE.
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Page 523 - 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.
Page 117 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 321 - 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.
Page 546 - 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.
Page 550 - 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...
Page 131 - ... 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.
Page 248 - And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down. Oft liquid lakes of burning sulphur flow, Fed from the fiery springs that boil below.
Page 534 - 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...
Page 534 - ... 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.