 | AMERICAN WEALTH - 1833 - Počet stránok 228
...proportionate premiums are given. " During my stay at Tejuco," says Mawe, " a stone of sixteen and a half carats was found. It was pleasing to see the anxious...the poor negro to his freedom ; and when, on being delivered and weighed, it proved only a carat short of the requisite weight, all seemed to sympathize... | |
 | William Adams - 1836 - Počet stránok 508
...trivial amount, proportionate premiums are given. During the stay of Mr. Mawe at Tejuco, a stone of 16j carats was found; it was pleasing to see the anxious...the poor negro to his freedom, and when, on being delivered and weighed, it proved only a carat short of the requisite weight, all seemed to sympathize... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - Počet stránok 516
...amount, proportionate premiums are given. " During my stay at Tejuco," says Mawe, " a stone of 164 carats was found ; it was pleasing to see the anxious...the poor negro to his freedom ; and when, on being delivered and weighed, it proved only a caret short of the requisite weight, all seemed to sympathize... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - Počet stránok 932
...stones of trivial amount, proportionate premiums are given. " During my stay at Tejuco," says Mawe, " a stone of 16} carats was found ; it was pleasing...the poor negro to his freedom ; and when, on being delivered and weighed, it proved only a caret short of the requisite weight, all seemed to sympathize... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - Počet stránok 802
..." During my stay at Tejuco," says Mawe, " a stone of 164 carats was found ; it was pleasing to sae the anxious desire manifested by the officers, that...the poor negro to his freedom ; and when, on being delivered and weighed, it proved only a caret short of the requisite weight, all seemed to sympathize... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - Počet stránok 588
...work on his own account. One who was present when a stone of 16^ carats was found at Tejuco, says : " It was pleasing to see the anxious desire manifested by the officers that it might entitle the poor negro to his freedom ; and when, on being delivered and weighed, it proved only a... | |
 | 1857 - Počet stránok 602
...work on his own account. One who was present when a stone of 16£ carats was found at Tejuco, says : " It was pleasing to see the anxious desire manifested by the officers that it might entitle the poor negro to his freedom ; and when, on being delivered and weighed, it proved only a... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1857 - Počet stránok 432
...work on his own account. One who was present when a stone of 16| carats was found at Tejuco, says : ' It was pleasing to see the anxious desire manifested by the officers that it might entitle the poor negro to his freedom ; and when, on being delivered and weighed, it proved only a... | |
 | John Platts - 1876 - Počet stránok 986
...wreath of flowers, and carried in procession to the administrator, who gives him his freedom, by paving his owner for it. He also receives a present of new...the poor negro to his freedom; and when, on being delivered and weighed, it proved only a carat short of the requisite weight, all seemed to sympathize... | |
 | Adela Elizabeth Richards Orpen - 1890 - Počet stránok 296
...diamond, which with much eagerness he took to be weighed. " It was pleasing to see the anxious desire of the officers that it might prove heavy enough to entitle the poor negro to his freedom, and when on being delivered and weighed it proved only one carat short of the requisite weight all " seemed to sympathize... | |
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Tejuco, a stone of 16^ carats was found : it was pleasing to see the anxious desire manifested by the officers that it might prove heavy enough to entitle the poor negro to his freedom; and when, on being delivered and weighed, it proved only a carat... 
