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 10
... mind , and truly delightful ! But should storms prevail to anger the dreadful ocean , and change the delightful scene from gladness to horror , your mind will be impressed with ideas of a different nature , the jarring elements will ...
... mind , and truly delightful ! But should storms prevail to anger the dreadful ocean , and change the delightful scene from gladness to horror , your mind will be impressed with ideas of a different nature , the jarring elements will ...
الصفحة 11
... mind ; but to the man who is contempla- tively inclined , they produce the most sublime fenfations , and are sources of extreme delight ; the changes and variety of colours of the waters , and the sparkling particles like fire often ...
... mind ; but to the man who is contempla- tively inclined , they produce the most sublime fenfations , and are sources of extreme delight ; the changes and variety of colours of the waters , and the sparkling particles like fire often ...
الصفحة 17
... mind oppress'd . They wounded me in ev'ry part , My face and body o'er , My legs and thighs oft felt their smart , And were excessive fore . As Ireland when much opprefs'd , With creatures full of stings , Was by St. Patrick once bless ...
... mind oppress'd . They wounded me in ev'ry part , My face and body o'er , My legs and thighs oft felt their smart , And were excessive fore . As Ireland when much opprefs'd , With creatures full of stings , Was by St. Patrick once bless ...
الصفحة 40
... . Though I am naturally fond of mirth and society , yet I often like retirement , and have often enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... . Though I am naturally fond of mirth and society , yet I often like retirement , and have often enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 67
... mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look . My flender adventure was prudently bought , And fuch as wou'd answer this market , I thought : For tobacco , chinkapins ...
... mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look . My flender adventure was prudently bought , And fuch as wou'd answer this market , I thought : For tobacco , chinkapins ...
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