Quotes About 1714

For the Negroes on the island" of Jamaica "being 80,000," it was said in 1714, and the "white people not above 2000," the former "may at any time rise and destroy the white people"; besides, Jamaica had a "formidable neighbour," referring to the "French on Hispaniola," which increased the peril, as the internal and external antagonists could combine.

Queipo de Llano había dicho: «De Madrid haremos una ciudad, de Bilbao una fábrica, de Barcelona un solar». Arrasarlo todo. Como en 1714.

On Friday noon, July twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below.