Jamaica: Its Past and Present StateJ. Snow, 1843 - 487 стор. |
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African Anne's Bay Annotto Bay appearance attended Baptist Missionary Baptist Missionary Society beautiful bless British buckra chapel character Christ Christian church circumstances civil classes colony colour concubinage considerable Court cultivation denominations districts domestic England equal especially European exhibited Falmouth feelings feet female Fort Augusta friends Governor habits heart honour individual influence instances island Jamaica Kingston labour land Lord Lucea magistrates Massa Jesus master means ment minister Missionary Society Montego Bay mountains mulatto multitudes negro neighbourhood night occasion Old Harbour overseer parish peasantry persons pimento places of worship planters poor population Port Antonio Port Maria Port Morant Port Royal possession pray prayer prayer-meeting preach present Quashie religion religious respect Sabbath Savanna-la-Mar scarcely sinner slavery slaves Sligo soul Spanish Town spirit sugar tion trees usually Wesleyan whilst white inhabitants whole writer
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Сторінка 76 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Сторінка 223 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and, as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Сторінка 260 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden...
Сторінка 268 - What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise : for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, " There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Сторінка 76 - When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene, Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars...
Сторінка 259 - To a woman I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. If I was hungry or thirsty, wet or sick, they did not hesitate, like the men, to perform a generous action.
Сторінка 260 - Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, — if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweet draught, and, if hungry, ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Сторінка 433 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Сторінка 366 - ... to choose those who were strong and likely to make good workmen. The man went to the slavemarket and commenced his search.
Сторінка 3 - ... and how can they believe in him, of whom they have not heard; and how can they hear without a preacher; and how can they preach except they be sent.