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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... exposed , all wea- thers , to the sun's almost intolerable heat , and heavy rains , in the months of January and Fe ... expose themselves to the weather ; but such are cruel , uncharitable brutes puffed up with ignorance and empty ...
... exposed , all wea- thers , to the sun's almost intolerable heat , and heavy rains , in the months of January and Fe ... expose themselves to the weather ; but such are cruel , uncharitable brutes puffed up with ignorance and empty ...
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... thousands and thousands have by that means caused their own deaths . Though you be ever so warm and drowsy , do not attempt to fleep where you will be exposed to the i 1 the night air , or heavy dews , which too 24 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... thousands and thousands have by that means caused their own deaths . Though you be ever so warm and drowsy , do not attempt to fleep where you will be exposed to the i 1 the night air , or heavy dews , which too 24 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 49
... exposing his conftitution to the menial , toilfome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who attempts or un ...
... exposing his conftitution to the menial , toilfome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who attempts or un ...
الصفحة 79
... , 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 the climate , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 79.
... , 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 the climate , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 79.
الصفحة 80
J. B. Moreton. to him to expose his constitution to the climate , when his falary would barely pay for clothes , much less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could such a one go with alacrity through the menial drudgeries of a book ...
J. B. Moreton. to him to expose his constitution to the climate , when his falary would barely pay for clothes , much less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could such a one go with alacrity through the menial drudgeries of a book ...
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