The Wonders of Nature and Art: Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most Curious and Remarkable in the World; Whether Relating to Its Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Productions, Or to the Manufactures, Buildings and Inventions of Its Inhabitants, Compiled from Historical and Geographical Works of Established Celebrity, and Illustrated with the Discoveries of Modern Travellers, Том 10J. Walker, 1804 |
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... negroes perform all sorts of manual labour , their masters are left to saunter away their lives in sloth and ignorance . It is but justice , however , to remark , that these observations apply only to the people in the country , and ...
... negroes perform all sorts of manual labour , their masters are left to saunter away their lives in sloth and ignorance . It is but justice , however , to remark , that these observations apply only to the people in the country , and ...
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... Negroes , whom they scarcely con sider as of the human species ; so that it is almost impossible in cases of violence committed upon those unhappy people by any of the planters , to have the delinquent brought to justice ; for either ...
... Negroes , whom they scarcely con sider as of the human species ; so that it is almost impossible in cases of violence committed upon those unhappy people by any of the planters , to have the delinquent brought to justice ; for either ...
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... Negroes . These dances are without any method or regularity : A gentleman and lady stand up , and dance about the room , one of them retiring , the other pursuing , then perhaps meeting , in an irregular fantastical manner . After some ...
... Negroes . These dances are without any method or regularity : A gentleman and lady stand up , and dance about the room , one of them retiring , the other pursuing , then perhaps meeting , in an irregular fantastical manner . After some ...
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... negroes . The sciences appear to be equally disregarded ; for political enquiries and philosophical disquisitions are too laborious for the indolent minds of the people at large . " Less attention and respect , ' says an American ...
... negroes . The sciences appear to be equally disregarded ; for political enquiries and philosophical disquisitions are too laborious for the indolent minds of the people at large . " Less attention and respect , ' says an American ...
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... negroes ; their sugars found a good market in Holland ; and their dry goods from England enabled them to carry on an advantageous traffic with the neighbouring colonies . By this kind of circuitous commerce they subsisted and grew ...
... negroes ; their sugars found a good market in Holland ; and their dry goods from England enabled them to carry on an advantageous traffic with the neighbouring colonies . By this kind of circuitous commerce they subsisted and grew ...
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