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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... state of health . If you take care of yourself in the beginning , you probably may pre- vent a fit of fickness which otherwise may prove fatal to you . I do not mean to advise you to employ a doctor on every flight mark of indispo ...
... state of health . If you take care of yourself in the beginning , you probably may pre- vent a fit of fickness which otherwise may prove fatal to you . I do not mean to advise you to employ a doctor on every flight mark of indispo ...
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... state ; for all the filth and dirt which is dispersed over the country is washed away , and circulates in every current , for which reason filtering stones are used , which not only purify , but cool the water amazingly . There are many ...
... state ; for all the filth and dirt which is dispersed over the country is washed away , and circulates in every current , for which reason filtering stones are used , which not only purify , but cool the water amazingly . There are many ...
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... state of intoxication ' till they spend all their prize money or wages , and are after- wards plundered of their filver watches , buckles , clothes , & c . and betrayed for small premiums by their hofts ; and in war time trapaned on ...
... state of intoxication ' till they spend all their prize money or wages , and are after- wards plundered of their filver watches , buckles , clothes , & c . and betrayed for small premiums by their hofts ; and in war time trapaned on ...
الصفحة 60
... state ; " Tis perfonal virtue only makes us great . " And I should think it strange if it was other- wife , when I consider how many great men there are in those torrid regions , successful knaves , who by cunning , fraud , and deceit ...
... state ; " Tis perfonal virtue only makes us great . " And I should think it strange if it was other- wife , when I consider how many great men there are in those torrid regions , successful knaves , who by cunning , fraud , and deceit ...
الصفحة 61
... state of defence , he put it twice to a very great and unne- cessary expence , by enforcing martial law in 1779 and 1780 ; his proclamation of a " glorious " expedition intended against the Spanish main , to be headed in person by ...
... state of defence , he put it twice to a very great and unne- cessary expence , by enforcing martial law in 1779 and 1780 ; his proclamation of a " glorious " expedition intended against the Spanish main , to be headed in person by ...
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