The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer: The story of HenriettaSampson Low, 1800 |
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... never defired to revifit Europe . From being a defpot on his own eftate , imagined he might exercife unbounded authority over every being that belonged . to him . But his fifter , as haughty in B 6 to SOLITARY WANDERER . 11 ! ...
... never defired to revifit Europe . From being a defpot on his own eftate , imagined he might exercife unbounded authority over every being that belonged . to him . But his fifter , as haughty in B 6 to SOLITARY WANDERER . 11 ! ...
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... imagining I at once faw the cause of Henrietta's coldnefs to me . " Yes , " replied my informer ; " but Mifs has never seen him yet . You must know , that in this madam's jiggeting backwards and forwards , getting things to rights , I ...
... imagining I at once faw the cause of Henrietta's coldnefs to me . " Yes , " replied my informer ; " but Mifs has never seen him yet . You must know , that in this madam's jiggeting backwards and forwards , getting things to rights , I ...
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... imagined ; the vivid flashes of light- ning , which feemed to penetrate every part of the building , and ran in blue rays along the floor ; the flames of fome of the negro houfes , of which the palm thatch had been fired by the light ...
... imagined ; the vivid flashes of light- ning , which feemed to penetrate every part of the building , and ran in blue rays along the floor ; the flames of fome of the negro houfes , of which the palm thatch had been fired by the light ...
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... imagining it might be the little girl . I had no anfwer ; yet the perfon , who- ever it was , feemed to be nearer to me ,. and to draw breath with ftill greater difficulty . I rofe , and put my hands forward . They encountered a human ...
... imagining it might be the little girl . I had no anfwer ; yet the perfon , who- ever it was , feemed to be nearer to me ,. and to draw breath with ftill greater difficulty . I rofe , and put my hands forward . They encountered a human ...
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... imagining he had killed me , or not daring to stay to complete his work , he and his companion fled , and left me weltering in my blood .. I was not , how - t ever , infenfible , and had fufficient pre- fence of mind to endeavour to ...
... imagining he had killed me , or not daring to stay to complete his work , he and his companion fled , and left me weltering in my blood .. I was not , how - t ever , infenfible , and had fufficient pre- fence of mind to endeavour to ...
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affection affured againſt almoft Amponah anſwer appeared apprehenfions Apthorp became becauſe confequence confiderable confidered daugh defcribe defire Denbigh dread eftate endeavoured Engliſh eſcape fafe fafety faid fame father fear feemed feen felf felt fent fervant feven fhall fhip fhould fifter filence fince firft firſt fituation flaves fome foon fortune fpeak fpirits fpoke ftill ftrange fuch fuffered fuppofed furely haftened heard heart Henrietta herſelf himſelf houfe houſe ifland imagined impoffible increaſed Jamaica knew laft leaſt lefs liftened loft mafter Maroons marriage Maynard ment mifery Mifs mind moft moſt mother muft mulatto muſt myſelf neceffary negroes never occafioned paffed perfon perfuaded pleaſure poffeffed poffible poor prefent purpoſe queſtion reafon recollection refidence refolution rietta ſeemed ſhe ſpeak ſtate thefe themſelves ther theſe thofe thoſe thought told underſtand unhappy uſed Warley Weft whofe whoſe wife wifh woman worfe wretched
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Сторінка 294 - And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Сторінка 213 - ... and that which is called education gives none but obliterates any distinguishing traits that may by chance arise to character. He believes their lack of character is the result of tradition and training: We set out with saying that women must do so and so, and think so and so, as their grandmothers and mothers thought before them. If any of them venture even to look as if they had any will of their own, or supposed themselves capable of reasoning, how immediately are they marked as something...
Сторінка 93 - ... noises which, I was informed, are the signals used by the Maroons and runaway negroes to collect their numbers or hold their councils. Sometimes it was a few dull notes struck in a particular manner on their gombay or drum, answered by the same number of strokes from another quarter. At another time, it was the sullen sound of a great shell ; which is, they say, used...
Сторінка 214 - ... absurd, and out of nature! while the most insipid moppet that even looked in a glass is preferred to one of those reasoning damsels, especially by empty and superficial young men ; who, such as the majority of them are, two-thirds of the younger women, desire only to please. What then are we to expect from women, who flattered into angels in their youth, forget that age will come; and sickness, perhaps, even sooner than time, blast perfections on which all their vanity is founded."1 The Hungarian...
Сторінка 213 - I believe, my friend, it is a melancholy truth, that women have no character at all ; and what is called their education gives none: it only helps to obliterate any diflinguifhing traits of original difpofition which here and there may rife by chance into higher flyles of character.
Сторінка 132 - I now faw, however, was in feme degree accommodated to the residence of a being of another description; and when I looked around it, and beheld its inhabitant, the fable which had moft delighted my youth occurred to me, and I imagined myfelf in the inward apartment of Robinfon Crufoe.
Сторінка 85 - It ceafed not, however, till after day-break ; and then the female negroes and mulattoes, who belonged to me, crowded into my room, each with fome ftory more terrible than the preceding, of what fhe had feared or fuffered.
Сторінка 114 - Smith's novella, the black rebels are depicted as "savages, always terrible in their passions, and in whom the fierce inclination for European women was now likely to be exalted by the desire of revenge
Сторінка 307 - ... a beautiful white woman from a negro, and had brought her to be added to the number of his wives.
Сторінка 61 - My father's ftrange refolution to raife a dependent to the rank of bis fonin-law ; to make the fortune of a man in humble life wholly dependent on, and owing every thing to him.