The West Indies and the Spanish MainHarper & brothers, 1860 - 381 oldal |
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54. oldal
... matter of course . We were soon wet through up to our middles , but that is a matter of course also . We came to various dreadful passages , which broke our toes and our nails and our hats , the worst of which was called Jacob's ladder ...
... matter of course . We were soon wet through up to our middles , but that is a matter of course also . We came to various dreadful passages , which broke our toes and our nails and our hats , the worst of which was called Jacob's ladder ...
68. oldal
... matters , it is now thought necessary to wrap him up in cotton and put him . under a glass case . The wind must not blow on him too roughly , and the rose - leaves on which he sleeps should not be ruffled . He has been a slave ...
... matters , it is now thought necessary to wrap him up in cotton and put him . under a glass case . The wind must not blow on him too roughly , and the rose - leaves on which he sleeps should not be ruffled . He has been a slave ...
69. oldal
... matter , or has any wish or any solicitude on such a subject . Lord Brougham mentions it as a matter of congratu- lation , that so large a proportion of the signatures should be written by the subscribers themselves - that there should ...
... matter , or has any wish or any solicitude on such a subject . Lord Brougham mentions it as a matter of congratu- lation , that so large a proportion of the signatures should be written by the subscribers themselves - that there should ...
70. oldal
... matters are under government surveillance ; and the planter who has allotted to him the privilege of employ- ing such labor becomes almost as much subject to govern- ment inspection as though his estate were government property . It is ...
... matters are under government surveillance ; and the planter who has allotted to him the privilege of employ- ing such labor becomes almost as much subject to govern- ment inspection as though his estate were government property . It is ...
77. oldal
... matters exceptional cases prove and disprove nothing . Englishmen as a rule are stouter than Frenchmen . Were a French Falstaff and an English Slender brought into a room together , the above position would be not a whit disproved . It ...
... matters exceptional cases prove and disprove nothing . Englishmen as a rule are stouter than Frenchmen . Were a French Falstaff and an English Slender brought into a room together , the above position would be not a whit disproved . It ...
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