An Account of the European Settlements in America: Containing an Accurate Description of Their Extent, Climate, Productions, Trade, Genius, and Dispositions of Their Inhabitants, the Interests of the Several Powers of Europe with Respect to Those Settlements; and Their Political and Commercial Views with Regard to Each Other, 1권J. J. Stockdale, 1808 |
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311 페이지 - Miserere rise from all parts of the city ; and immediately all was silent ; the sea had entirely overwhelmed it, and buried it for ever in its bosom : but the same wave that destroyed it, drove a little boat by the place where he stood, into which he threw himself and was saved.
31 페이지 - Those who would carry on the great public schemes must be proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults, and worst of all the presumptuous judgment of the ignorant upon their designs.
221 페이지 - In ordinary cases the crime is either revenged or compromised by the parties concerned. If a murder is committed, the family which has lost a relation prepares to retaliate on that of the offender. They often kill the murderer, and when this happens, the kindred of the...
227 페이지 - ... and attention with which they discharge this melancholy duty of their tenderness; gathering up carefully even the smallest...
93 페이지 - ... as it is in nature, that a want of proper motion does not breed rest and stability, but a motion of another kind; a motion unseen and intestine, which does not preserve but destroy. The best form and settlement of a state, and every regulation within it, obeys the same universal law; and the only way to prevent all things from going to decay is by continually aiming to better them in some respect or other...
240 페이지 - ... now up, now down, falling into their fires at every ftep, runs hither and thither, until one of the chiefs, whether out of compaflion or weary of cruelty, puts an end to his life with a club or a dagger.
226 페이지 - ... according to the degree in which corruption has prevailed over them, or the manner in which it has attacked them. Some appear dry and withered; others have a sort of parchment upon their bones; some look as if they were baked and smoked, without any appearance of rottenness; some are just turning towards the point of putrefaction'; while others are all swarming with worms, and drowned in corruption. I know not...
224 페이지 - Then the women lament the loss with the most bitter cries, and the most hideous howlings, intermixed with songs, which celebrate the great actions of the deceased, and those of his ancestors. The men mourn in a less extravagant manner. The whole village attends the body to the grave, which is interred, habited in their most sumptuous ornaments.
235 페이지 - In this manner they often enter a village, whilst the strength of the nation is employed in hunting, and massacre all the helpless old men, women, and children, or make prisoners of as many as they can manage, or have strength enough to be useful to their nation. They often cut off small parties of men in their huntings ; but when they discover an army of their enemies, their way is to throw themselves flat on their faces...
285 페이지 - ... or in trade, and have the same character and manners with the Spaniards of Europe ; the same gravity of behavior, the same natural sagacity and good sense, the same indolence, and yet a greater share of pride and stateliness; for here they look upon the being natives of Old Spain as a very honorable distinction, and are in return looked upon by the Creoles with no small share of hatred and envy. ' The latter have little of that firmness and patience which makes one of the finest parts of the...