The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volumen59Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1819 |
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... mulattos , and other persons of colour . The regiments of the line , likewise , ( as I have elsewhere said , ) admit into the ranks all persons except- ing negroes and Indians ; but the officers of these must prove nobi- lity of birth ...
... mulattos , and other persons of colour . The regiments of the line , likewise , ( as I have elsewhere said , ) admit into the ranks all persons except- ing negroes and Indians ; but the officers of these must prove nobi- lity of birth ...
Página 409
... mulattos of free birth as kind , as lenient , and as for- bearing to their slaves and other dependants as any white ... mulatto families are often glad to dispose of their daughters to these men , although the person who has been ...
... mulattos of free birth as kind , as lenient , and as for- bearing to their slaves and other dependants as any white ... mulatto families are often glad to dispose of their daughters to these men , although the person who has been ...
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... mulattos ; and the women of this cast particu- larly surpass in beauty all others of the country ; they have the brown tint of mulattos , but their features are less blunt , and their hair is not curled . I do not think that the men can ...
... mulattos ; and the women of this cast particu- larly surpass in beauty all others of the country ; they have the brown tint of mulattos , but their features are less blunt , and their hair is not curled . I do not think that the men can ...
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... mulattos , of which every officer and soldier must be per- fectly black . There are two of these regiments for the province of Pernambuco , which consist of indefinite numbers of men , who are dispersed all over the country . These ...
... mulattos , of which every officer and soldier must be per- fectly black . There are two of these regiments for the province of Pernambuco , which consist of indefinite numbers of men , who are dispersed all over the country . These ...
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... mulattos may obtain through their evasion of the law , but which the decided and une- quivocal colour of the negro en- tirely precludes him from aspiring to . In law all persons who are not white , and are born free , class equally ...
... mulattos may obtain through their evasion of the law , but which the decided and une- quivocal colour of the negro en- tirely precludes him from aspiring to . In law all persons who are not white , and are born free , class equally ...
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Página 562 - Mid flowers that never shall fade or fall ; Though mine are the gardens of earth and sea, And the stars themselves have flowers for me, One blossom of heaven out-blooms them all...
Página 572 - Soften'd his spirit) look'd and lay, Watching the rosy infant's play : — Though still, whene'er his eye by chance Fell on the boy's, its lurid glance Met that unclouded, joyous gaze, As torches, that have burnt all night Through some impure and godless rite, Encounter morning's glorious rays. But, hark ! the vesper call to prayer, As slow the orb of daylight sets, Is rising sweetly on the air, From SYRIA'S thousand minarets...
Página 411 - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above a musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.
Página 574 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Página 60 - Lordship should not propose to attend in person at the next general quarter sessions of the peace, to be holden in and for the county...
Página 570 - Of ruin'd shrines, busy and bright As they were all alive with light,— And yet more splendid, numerous flocks Of pigeons, settling on the rocks, With their rich restless wings, that gleam Variously in the crimson beam Of the warm west, — as if inlaid With brilliants from the mine, or made Of tearless rainbows, such as span Th
Página 5 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Página 575 - His was the spell o'er hearts Which only acting lends, — The youngest of the sister arts, Where all their beauty blends : For ill can poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And sculpture to be dumb.
Página 357 - ... pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward; the little king-bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district.
Página 357 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character ; he does not get his living honestly...