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Дата написания1970-01-01
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This was an absurd and wicked expedient for keeping him free from family interests.

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This African epithet for the whites is said, in the original, to bear the complimentary signification of 'devil.'

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This is partly owing to the unwillingness of continued from previous page: the negroes to remove to an unaccustomed place; but also, I think, to their rooted conviction that the only security for their independence is in having possession of the soil.

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Hanover has about one nineteenth of the whole population of the island. But the economical condition of the parishes varies too widely to make that of any one a basis for a general estimate.

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In common, they are by no means either so tawdry or so ostentatious as they have the credit of being.

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A gradual change is, indeed, observable, but as yet, it is only an incipient one.

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See account of the 'Prince's Ball,' given in New York, some time during the last century.

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Yet our author had already shown that Dennis, Cromwell's captain, 'contrived a stratagem which betrayed the country. He had got a considerable parcel of goods aboard, which belonged to two of the Council, and found a method of informing them of it. By this means they were reduced to the dilemma, either of submitting or losing their goods. This caused factions amongst them, so that at last'—we blush to add—'the colony surrendered—and saved the goods.' En dat Virginia quintam. The fifth crown had its price, even for a 'usurper.'

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Virginia was the other of which he was writing.

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