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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... save only Mefirs . Grant and Broadbelt , the former of Kingston , and the latter of Spanish - town , whom you will find to be skilful and worthy characters ; they have protracted the days of thousands . What numbers of counterfeit , or ...
... save only Mefirs . Grant and Broadbelt , the former of Kingston , and the latter of Spanish - town , whom you will find to be skilful and worthy characters ; they have protracted the days of thousands . What numbers of counterfeit , or ...
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... save only fome small spots here and there , which are cleared for guinea grafs , corn , and other provisions ; the small hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about ...
... save only fome small spots here and there , which are cleared for guinea grafs , corn , and other provisions ; the small hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about ...
الصفحة 60
... ( save only country pre- judice ) more than in Great - Britain and Ireland , where the poor are despised by the rich . " Talk not of ancestors , nor of their state ; " Tis perfonal virtue only makes us great . " And I should think it ...
... ( save only country pre- judice ) more than in Great - Britain and Ireland , where the poor are despised by the rich . " Talk not of ancestors , nor of their state ; " Tis perfonal virtue only makes us great . " And I should think it ...
الصفحة 98
... save the expence of foap , wears them amazing fast , it will require yearly , if he has not brought a good stock of shirts , neck- cloths , breeches , waistcoats , coats and stock- ings from home , about 30 l .: add to this 201 . for ...
... save the expence of foap , wears them amazing fast , it will require yearly , if he has not brought a good stock of shirts , neck- cloths , breeches , waistcoats , coats and stock- ings from home , about 30 l .: add to this 201 . for ...
الصفحة 99
... save nothing , but rather involve them- selves in debt , you may ask , " how is it possible that they can ever become merchants , or great men ? " It may indeed surprise you , as it often did me , to fee brats of shop boys , and even ...
... save nothing , but rather involve them- selves in debt , you may ask , " how is it possible that they can ever become merchants , or great men ? " It may indeed surprise you , as it often did me , to fee brats of shop boys , and even ...
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