Canada: Historical, 2. kötetClarendon Press, 1890 - 365 oldal |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
America Anguilla Antigua Assembly Bahamas Barbadians Barbados Belize Berbice Bermudas Britain British colony British Guiana British Honduras buccaneers Caicos Caribs Carlisle Cayman century CHAPTER climate coast cocoa Columbus Company continent Council Crown Demerara district Dominica Dutch early east East Falkland eastern Edition England English Essequibo European export Falkland French given Governor grant Grenada Gulf of Paria Harbour Hispaniola included inhabitants Jamaica King Kingston Kitts land Leeward Islands Lord Willoughby Lucia mainland mainly Maroons Martinique ment Montserrat Mosquito mountains natives negroes Nevis northern Notes Orinoco parish peace plantations population Port possession revenue river SECTION sent settled settlement settlers ships shores slaves south-west southern Spain Spaniards Spanish square miles sugar tion Tobago took town trade treaty Trinidad Turks Vincent Virgin Islands voyage West Indian West Indian islands West Indies western side Windward Islands
Népszerű szakaszok
236. oldal - For a while, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the...
306. oldal - Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which His subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the Territory of Spain in that part of the world...
15. oldal - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
97. oldal - We have done the like to the Windward English Islands; and both in England and Scotland and Ireland, you will have what men and women we can well transport.
1. oldal - A New English Dictionary, on Historical Principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by James AH Murray, LL.D., President of the Philological Society; with the assistance of many Scholars and men of Science.
64. oldal - But though the policy of Great Britain with regard to the trade of her colonies has been dictated by the same mercantile spirit as that of other nations, it has, however, upon the whole, been less illiberal and oppressive than that of any of them.
64. oldal - ... with all the other colonies of France, though it no doubt retarded, had not been able to stop its progress altogether. The course of its prosperity returned as soon as it was relieved from that oppression. It is now the most important of the sugar colonies of the West Indies, and its produce is said to be greater than that of all the English sugar colonies put together.
304. oldal - ... situated in the West Indies, or in any part of America, which the said King of Great Britain and His subjects do at present hold and possess, so...
266. oldal - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.