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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الصفحة 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impenda ing shower , hasten to your home , or to some hut , or place of thelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to Thun the weather , do not ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impenda ing shower , hasten to your home , or to some hut , or place of thelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to Thun the weather , do not ...
الصفحة 49
... or five years : He may attempt it , -- but how insignificant and aukward must a man appear , who attempts or undertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and say , “ My overseers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS , 49.
... or five years : He may attempt it , -- but how insignificant and aukward must a man appear , who attempts or undertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and say , “ My overseers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS , 49.
الصفحة 50
... and when a subordinate person knows the ignorance of him who should direct and give instructions to carry on business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to ...
... and when a subordinate person knows the ignorance of him who should direct and give instructions to carry on business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to ...
الصفحة 52
Taking off crop is a very laborious piece of business , and yet it is very amazing how cheerfully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten ...
Taking off crop is a very laborious piece of business , and yet it is very amazing how cheerfully the negroes begin and go through with it ; how , instead of getting weak and meagre , like the cattle and mules , they like rats fatten ...
الصفحة 64
... or to some Mac or other ; upon the delivery of which , he was taken notice of , and immediately put into some business , and in some time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowskin hero !
... or to some Mac or other ; upon the delivery of which , he was taken notice of , and immediately put into some business , and in some time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowskin hero !
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| العنوان | 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 |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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