West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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... proud , fuperftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , fome hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women fhould be compelled to whither out their days . in fuch inglorious dens of ...
... proud , fuperftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , fome hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women fhould be compelled to whither out their days . in fuch inglorious dens of ...
الصفحة 16
At night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire - flies , which sparkle like fire , a few of which , in the darkest room , give fuch light that you may read a book thereby , You will ...
At night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire - flies , which sparkle like fire , a few of which , in the darkest room , give fuch light that you may read a book thereby , You will ...
الصفحة 19
imposed on , or that phyfic fhould be thus abused by fuch vile pretenders . " This gift of God to fatan does ordain , " Polluted finks a prostitute for gain ; " Barbers , perfumers , and a thousand more , " Start up phyficians , all the ...
imposed on , or that phyfic fhould be thus abused by fuch vile pretenders . " This gift of God to fatan does ordain , " Polluted finks a prostitute for gain ; " Barbers , perfumers , and a thousand more , " Start up phyficians , all the ...
الصفحة 21
... as free with their conftitutions as other people , and get themselves frequently drunk , which is very wrong , for they often adminifter medicine when they are deprived of their fenfes , and visit their patients in fuch conditions .
... as free with their conftitutions as other people , and get themselves frequently drunk , which is very wrong , for they often adminifter medicine when they are deprived of their fenfes , and visit their patients in fuch conditions .
الصفحة 23
... of January and February ; when fainting beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never experienced the bad effect of fuch ill - timed bathing afterwards .
... of January and February ; when fainting beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never experienced the bad effect of fuch ill - timed bathing afterwards .
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