History of the West Indies, Volumen1Whittaker & Company, 1844 |
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Pasajes populares
Página xxxi - Nort'i moved in the House of Commons for leave to bring in a bill "for the better regulating the government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Página xxi - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Página xxiii - Whereto thus Adam, fatherly displeased : — " O execrable son, so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given ! He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation: but man over men 69 He made not lord — such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Página 104 - Assembly is 1000/. per annum. The Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, may, from time to time, as occasion requires, summon the General Assembly together, and may, of his own authority, adjourn, prorogue, and dissolve it.
Página 45 - O'er gorgeous flower and mighty tree On the soft and shadowy sea ! Beautiful islands ! brief the time I dwelt beneath your awful clime ; Yet oft I see in noonday dream Your glorious stars with lunar beam ; And oft before my sight arise Your sky-like seas, your sea-like skies, Your green...
Página xxvii - It is the sense of this meeting, that the importing of Negroes from their native country and relations by Friends, is not a commendable nor allowed practice, and is therefore censured by this meeting.
Página 105 - Minerva, holding a trident In one hand, and in the other a mirror, reflecting the rays of the benign influence of Heaven on the produce of the Island; behind her the British Lion, supporting her shield, a conch shell at her feet, and at a distance a ship under sail Legend, Has fovet, hns cural, servatque, Britannia Mater.
Página 108 - Monday in March, the first Monday in July, and the first Monday in November.
Página 106 - Oconto, on the first Monday in February, the first Monday in June, and the first Monday in...
Página 34 - Crown, and it was laid down that ' all such laws and statutes of England, as have been at any time esteemed, Introduced, used, accepted or received as laws in this island, shall and are hereby declared to be and continue laws of this His Majesty's island of Jamaica for ever V Deputies of Ireland at the time.