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 31
... spirits , beer and spices , and to live as temperate and low as poffible ; bread , penada , barley gruel , lintseed tea , and fuch like , should be your only nourishment for a few days ; you will find the good effect of living sparingly ...
... spirits , beer and spices , and to live as temperate and low as poffible ; bread , penada , barley gruel , lintseed tea , and fuch like , should be your only nourishment for a few days ; you will find the good effect of living sparingly ...
الصفحة 43
... a planter who has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug . An acre contains about 3555 holes , three D2 feet and a half square , and if the ground. feet care IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 43.
... a planter who has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug . An acre contains about 3555 holes , three D2 feet and a half square , and if the ground. feet care IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 43.
الصفحة 56
... spirits may evaporate ; the worms too should be kept as cool as possible ; a flow fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only waste , but will have a disagreeable flavor , something like low wines ...
... spirits may evaporate ; the worms too should be kept as cool as possible ; a flow fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only waste , but will have a disagreeable flavor , something like low wines ...
الصفحة 79
... spirit , or genius , would think himself buried alive , and would secretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded set of cowskin heroes ; it would be pain F 4 to to him to expose his constitution to ...
... spirit , or genius , would think himself buried alive , and would secretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded set of cowskin heroes ; it would be pain F 4 to to him to expose his constitution to ...
الصفحة 80
... spirit , which com- monly rages in youth , tempt him to complain to the proprietor or attorney , though the griev- ance and complaint are just , he may depend , as fure as he exists , that the whole fraternity of cowskin heroes will be ...
... spirit , which com- monly rages in youth , tempt him to complain to the proprietor or attorney , though the griev- ance and complaint are just , he may depend , as fure as he exists , that the whole fraternity of cowskin heroes will be ...
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