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Description Of The Island Of Malta
Buonaparte has laid his harpy claws upon their little domain , and -granted the Maltese the blessing , of liberty , by revolutionizing their o-overnment , and seizing ail their possessions . ° The Abbot de Vertot says , th ,. t ' either h _ is deceived by a partiality for his own work , oi-there never was a military Order in . all Christendom , in which disinterestedness , purity of manners , and . and into which
heroic , courage were so long held in esteem ; luxury , covetousness " and debauchery , were so late introduced : ' a plain imitition of the celebrated passage of Livy , lib . i . Prx-f . sub fiiiem ; < Ceterum aut me amor negotii susi . epti fallif , aut nulla unquam rey piiblica , necmajor , nee sandlior , nee bonis exemplis ditior fuit ; nee in < p . iam sera ; avaritia , luxuriaque immigraverint . '
Character Of The African Black.
CHARACTER OF THE AFRICAN BLACK .
AS EXHIBITED IN THE WEST INDIES .
THE negro , just like ourselves , is good or bad , with all the different shades that modify the two extremes . Plis passions are those of uninformed nature : he is libidinous without love , and gluttonous without delicacy . Woman for him is merely an instrument of pleasure . When he is hungry , it is a matter of indifference tp him whether he eats a piece of carrion or a pullet , a frog or a pintado . He is
indolent , because he has few of the wants which labour is calculated to . satisfy ; and because he either cannot , or will not , conceive the necessity of labouring for us ; nor the justice of doing it without any other retribution than blows and stripes . He loves repose , not for the sake of enjoying it as we do , nor for the opportunity of finding in tranquillity the moral fruition which a state of physical activity had deprived him of ; but for the sake of doing nothing—for to do nothing has ever been the ruling passion of all the people of the torrid zone .
He neither loves nor hates habitually ; but when he does either the one or the other , it is with fury . Some of them have by turns , the grovelling and vain , the stipple and inflexible , the ferocious and timid character of the despot and the slave . They brood over their vengeance , or suffer it to exhale in threats ; but would you see these hurlers of thunderbolts at your fact—shew them the point of a needle . Generally speakingthe negroes are neither false nor perfidious :
, sometimes you will find a knave among them , who was probably ia Africa a physician , a sorcerer , or a priest—such a man is extremely dangerous . To manage them properly , we should impose on them the simplest duties , the clearest laws ; and exact the performance of them with rigourthough with a strict regard to justice : for indulgence , in their
, eyes , is weakness ; and injustice a defect of judgment , which excites their hatred , or their contempt . Whether it be that they have false or confused ideas on the nature of meum and tuum ; that the absolute want of property makes them careless or ignorant of its rig hts ; or that they suppose a state of slavery
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Description Of The Island Of Malta
Buonaparte has laid his harpy claws upon their little domain , and -granted the Maltese the blessing , of liberty , by revolutionizing their o-overnment , and seizing ail their possessions . ° The Abbot de Vertot says , th ,. t ' either h _ is deceived by a partiality for his own work , oi-there never was a military Order in . all Christendom , in which disinterestedness , purity of manners , and . and into which
heroic , courage were so long held in esteem ; luxury , covetousness " and debauchery , were so late introduced : ' a plain imitition of the celebrated passage of Livy , lib . i . Prx-f . sub fiiiem ; < Ceterum aut me amor negotii susi . epti fallif , aut nulla unquam rey piiblica , necmajor , nee sandlior , nee bonis exemplis ditior fuit ; nee in < p . iam sera ; avaritia , luxuriaque immigraverint . '
Character Of The African Black.
CHARACTER OF THE AFRICAN BLACK .
AS EXHIBITED IN THE WEST INDIES .
THE negro , just like ourselves , is good or bad , with all the different shades that modify the two extremes . Plis passions are those of uninformed nature : he is libidinous without love , and gluttonous without delicacy . Woman for him is merely an instrument of pleasure . When he is hungry , it is a matter of indifference tp him whether he eats a piece of carrion or a pullet , a frog or a pintado . He is
indolent , because he has few of the wants which labour is calculated to . satisfy ; and because he either cannot , or will not , conceive the necessity of labouring for us ; nor the justice of doing it without any other retribution than blows and stripes . He loves repose , not for the sake of enjoying it as we do , nor for the opportunity of finding in tranquillity the moral fruition which a state of physical activity had deprived him of ; but for the sake of doing nothing—for to do nothing has ever been the ruling passion of all the people of the torrid zone .
He neither loves nor hates habitually ; but when he does either the one or the other , it is with fury . Some of them have by turns , the grovelling and vain , the stipple and inflexible , the ferocious and timid character of the despot and the slave . They brood over their vengeance , or suffer it to exhale in threats ; but would you see these hurlers of thunderbolts at your fact—shew them the point of a needle . Generally speakingthe negroes are neither false nor perfidious :
, sometimes you will find a knave among them , who was probably ia Africa a physician , a sorcerer , or a priest—such a man is extremely dangerous . To manage them properly , we should impose on them the simplest duties , the clearest laws ; and exact the performance of them with rigourthough with a strict regard to justice : for indulgence , in their
, eyes , is weakness ; and injustice a defect of judgment , which excites their hatred , or their contempt . Whether it be that they have false or confused ideas on the nature of meum and tuum ; that the absolute want of property makes them careless or ignorant of its rig hts ; or that they suppose a state of slavery