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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 34
... ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and assemblies ; there are also two free mason lodges , to wit , Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's ; both Scotch and Irish keep up that ancient , honourable , and friendly society monthly , and ...
... ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and assemblies ; there are also two free mason lodges , to wit , Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's ; both Scotch and Irish keep up that ancient , honourable , and friendly society monthly , and ...
الصفحة 36
... ladies and gentlemen , superbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war , plundered from infa tuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination , to their shame , devote the fabbaths to every kind of ...
... ladies and gentlemen , superbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war , plundered from infa tuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination , to their shame , devote the fabbaths to every kind of ...
الصفحة 62
... re- ceived very politely ; he made several apologies for his rashness ; that he took me to be a mar- shal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... re- ceived very politely ; he made several apologies for his rashness ; that he took me to be a mar- shal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 63
J. B. Moreton. fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived most luxuriously , in defiance of the law ! There is a law of the island favouring insolvent debtors , by which any person in the space of three months , by rendering ...
J. B. Moreton. fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived most luxuriously , in defiance of the law ! There is a law of the island favouring insolvent debtors , by which any person in the space of three months , by rendering ...
الصفحة 78
... ladies of easy virtue into keeping at once ; in those countries frigid lovers trifle away half their time in stiff formalities and religious ceremonies , whilst chil- / dren of the fun , fofstered and invigorated beneath his cæleftial ...
... ladies of easy virtue into keeping at once ; in those countries frigid lovers trifle away half their time in stiff formalities and religious ceremonies , whilst chil- / dren of the fun , fofstered and invigorated beneath his cæleftial ...
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