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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... poor , proud , fuperftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , fome hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women fhould be compelled to whither out their days . in fuch inglorious dens of ...
... poor , proud , fuperftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , fome hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women fhould be compelled to whither out their days . in fuch inglorious dens of ...
الصفحة 14
... poor deluded nuns think thofe rogues are all faints , by whom they are taught to believe that fuperftition , ignorance and folly , are beaming virtues ; and no doubt but many of the poor beings , as flesh and blood , fecluded from all ...
... poor deluded nuns think thofe rogues are all faints , by whom they are taught to believe that fuperftition , ignorance and folly , are beaming virtues ; and no doubt but many of the poor beings , as flesh and blood , fecluded from all ...
الصفحة 15
... poor and dirty , they may be good flesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be chattering to them , or asking foolish queftions on deck , or elsewhere : keep them at a proper distance , and they will refpect and ...
... poor and dirty , they may be good flesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be chattering to them , or asking foolish queftions on deck , or elsewhere : keep them at a proper distance , and they will refpect and ...
الصفحة 16
... poor Africans , male and female , bufy at their labour with hardly rags fufficient to fecret their nakedness , will affect you not a little . At night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire ...
... poor Africans , male and female , bufy at their labour with hardly rags fufficient to fecret their nakedness , will affect you not a little . At night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire ...
الصفحة 27
... poor mortals are fubject to , dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impoffible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient fuffers in one hour nothing but the pains of hell can equal it . Caftor ...
... poor mortals are fubject to , dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impoffible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient fuffers in one hour nothing but the pains of hell can equal it . Caftor ...
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