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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C MY DEAR FRIEND ! S to A Jamaica , and I presume an entire ftranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , 1 think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from ...
C MY DEAR FRIEND ! S to A Jamaica , and I presume an entire ftranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , 1 think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from ...
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“ All abdicate their lawful trades to follow “ This injur'd science , and commence Apollo . “ To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , “ ' It alks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher .
“ All abdicate their lawful trades to follow “ This injur'd science , and commence Apollo . “ To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , “ ' It alks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher .
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When fick and languid on my bed I lay , In fainting fits the live long night and day , By a vile quack , condemn'd at once to die , “ He's past all cure ” -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art ...
When fick and languid on my bed I lay , In fainting fits the live long night and day , By a vile quack , condemn'd at once to die , “ He's past all cure ” -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art ...
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... he is looked upon as an Esculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grass .
... he is looked upon as an Esculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grass .
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... in a more elevated station ; and thereby the business is of course neglected , and the proprietor in England , through the ignorance of his attorney , or his good nature to support one of his poor friends , is materially injured .
... in a more elevated station ; and thereby the business is of course neglected , and the proprietor in England , through the ignorance of his attorney , or his good nature to support one of his poor friends , is materially injured .
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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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