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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... frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the poor deluded nuns think thofe rogues are all faints , by whom they are taught to believe that fuperftition , ignorance and folly , are beaming vir- tues ; and no ...
... frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the poor deluded nuns think thofe rogues are all faints , by whom they are taught to believe that fuperftition , ignorance and folly , are beaming vir- tues ; and no ...
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J. B. Moreton. natives , and till it becomes deluted or weakened by fickness , frequent perfpirations , internally and externally , and other evacuations , they feldom ' enjoy a right state of health . If you take care of yourself in the ...
J. B. Moreton. natives , and till it becomes deluted or weakened by fickness , frequent perfpirations , internally and externally , and other evacuations , they feldom ' enjoy a right state of health . If you take care of yourself in the ...
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... frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never ex- perienced the bad effect of fuch ill - timed bathing afterwards . When I quitted the fevere toils of a planter's life , and lived regular in town , I found the climate ...
... frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never ex- perienced the bad effect of fuch ill - timed bathing afterwards . When I quitted the fevere toils of a planter's life , and lived regular in town , I found the climate ...
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... frequent than when natural ; it often occafions a flux of blood and matter , and is attended with great pain when the patient is making water - O libidinous , ungovernable paffions , to what do you reduce poor mortals ! There are many ...
... frequent than when natural ; it often occafions a flux of blood and matter , and is attended with great pain when the patient is making water - O libidinous , ungovernable paffions , to what do you reduce poor mortals ! There are many ...
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... frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the Weft Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies fhake , and the mountains nod . I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ...
... frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the Weft Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies fhake , and the mountains nod . I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ...
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