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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... excess , prove ruinous to the health and welfare of many : though the pleasures are only momentary , the pain may be long and lasting , and never will bear serious refection without some poignacy at heart ; as a man cannot put his ...
... excess , prove ruinous to the health and welfare of many : though the pleasures are only momentary , the pain may be long and lasting , and never will bear serious refection without some poignacy at heart ; as a man cannot put his ...
الصفحة 32
... excess and vice , which they at home might shun , There day and night unguardedly they run , ' Till fad diforders and attendants vile , Of pain and anguish , grievoufly they feel ; Plung'd in disease , beyond all human cure , " Old , e ...
... excess and vice , which they at home might shun , There day and night unguardedly they run , ' Till fad diforders and attendants vile , Of pain and anguish , grievoufly they feel ; Plung'd in disease , beyond all human cure , " Old , e ...
الصفحة 70
... excess and debauchery , until the properties they were intrusted with were totally squandered , or so in- volved , that they were not worth retrieving . When a man is appointed executor , he gets two or three of his own friends to ...
... excess and debauchery , until the properties they were intrusted with were totally squandered , or so in- volved , that they were not worth retrieving . When a man is appointed executor , he gets two or three of his own friends to ...
الصفحة 104
... general , save only those who drink strong liquors to excess , are of a fickly , pale , yellowish complexion , meagre , weak , and emaciated 1 emaciated to appearance ; their contrarious cha- racteristic is , 104 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... general , save only those who drink strong liquors to excess , are of a fickly , pale , yellowish complexion , meagre , weak , and emaciated 1 emaciated to appearance ; their contrarious cha- racteristic is , 104 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 105
... excess ; proud , vain , high - fpirited and flighty to an extreme ; lazy , dull , and indolent , in all industrious mat- ters ; and volatile as air where drinking , whoring , gaming , or any kind of diffipation invites ; so that their ...
... excess ; proud , vain , high - fpirited and flighty to an extreme ; lazy , dull , and indolent , in all industrious mat- ters ; and volatile as air where drinking , whoring , gaming , or any kind of diffipation invites ; so that their ...
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