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It is difficult to understand Creolese in full spate , but the occasional archaic beauty of language is plain enough . It is the language of the Bible , spoken without grammar but with a lyrical compression which makes each phrase tell ...
It is difficult to understand Creolese in full spate , but the occasional archaic beauty of language is plain enough . It is the language of the Bible , spoken without grammar but with a lyrical compression which makes each phrase tell ...
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Today it is difficult to imagine that all has been achieved in a mere seventy - five years , when the trees of English landscaped gardens take two centuries to take the shape imagined for them by those who planted them .
Today it is difficult to imagine that all has been achieved in a mere seventy - five years , when the trees of English landscaped gardens take two centuries to take the shape imagined for them by those who planted them .
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Catching them alive is difficult since they can break any but the strongest net ; knowing this , the local animal - catchers , having enclosed one in a net , set up a vibration through the net which is so delicious to the manatee that ...
Catching them alive is difficult since they can break any but the strongest net ; knowing this , the local animal - catchers , having enclosed one in a net , set up a vibration through the net which is so delicious to the manatee that ...
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The constant difficulty is to ensure a high standard of work by means of trained supervision , and to induce highly trained engineers to come to the Colony — and to remain for more than one or two years once they have come .
The constant difficulty is to ensure a high standard of work by means of trained supervision , and to induce highly trained engineers to come to the Colony — and to remain for more than one or two years once they have come .
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They found no Guianese who had studied aviation engineering thoroughly enough to be put in complete charge of the shops , and had equal difficulty in attracting to the job an expatriate willing to remain some years in the Colony .
They found no Guianese who had studied aviation engineering thoroughly enough to be put in complete charge of the shops , and had equal difficulty in attracting to the job an expatriate willing to remain some years in the Colony .
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Uobičajeni izrazi i fraze
African agricultural allowed Amerindians appear become believe Berbice British Guiana brought building built called canals cause cent coast Colony coloured Commission Company Constitution Demerara difficult District drainage Dutch East Indian economic elected English Essequibo estates fact factory fall Federation fields forest Georgetown give given Government Governor ground Guianese hand important increase Indian industry interests Interior labour land leaves less live look Mackenzie manager matter means ment miles move Negro never officer once Party plantations political population possible prepared problems produced Report result rice river road Rupununi schemes schools seems slaves Street sugar survey taken tion told town trees turned various village West workers
Bibliografski podaci
| Naslov | British Guiana: The Land of Six Peoples Opseg 4 iz Corona library |
| Autor | Michael Swan |
| Izdanje | 2, ilustrirano |
| Izdavač | H.M. Stationery Office, 1957 |
| Izvornik iz | Kalifornijsko sveučilište |
| Digitalizirano | 10 pro 2019 |
| Duljina | Broj stranica: 235 |
| Izvezi navode | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |