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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... faid of diseases peculiar to the Weft Indies , and of phyfic , though I know no- thing of the latter but what I experienced from obfervations on the treatment of myself and others ; and if I had a little more experience , which I hope I ...
... faid of diseases peculiar to the Weft Indies , and of phyfic , though I know no- thing of the latter but what I experienced from obfervations on the treatment of myself and others ; and if I had a little more experience , which I hope I ...
الصفحة 62
... faid , " Maffa will shoot you ' tone dead if you no go avey ' rectly . " Having a letter of introduction to his mafter , I was fhortly after re- ceived very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhness ; that he took me to be a ...
... faid , " Maffa will shoot you ' tone dead if you no go avey ' rectly . " Having a letter of introduction to his mafter , I was fhortly after re- ceived very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhness ; that he took me to be a ...
الصفحة 68
... faid that my mother , when pregnant of me , Was fond of dry'd pork to a longing degree ; Which cruel afperfion they only suppose , Because there's a mark of a pig on my nose ; I'm deem'd a Mulatto , a cheat , and a knave , And threat'n ...
... faid that my mother , when pregnant of me , Was fond of dry'd pork to a longing degree ; Which cruel afperfion they only suppose , Because there's a mark of a pig on my nose ; I'm deem'd a Mulatto , a cheat , and a knave , And threat'n ...
الصفحة 100
... faid , you will very naturally conclude , that though they are ftyled merchants in the West Indies , they are only factors ; and here I muft obferve , that I have often wondered how European merchants can poffibly give fuch large and ...
... faid , you will very naturally conclude , that though they are ftyled merchants in the West Indies , they are only factors ; and here I muft obferve , that I have often wondered how European merchants can poffibly give fuch large and ...
الصفحة 104
... faid , you may be affured , that if you do not behave yourself courteously , humble , and fubmiffive , and keep your tongue as it were with a bit and bridle , and your mind clofe to yourself , you never will be a great man : Shakespeare ...
... faid , you may be affured , that if you do not behave yourself courteously , humble , and fubmiffive , and keep your tongue as it were with a bit and bridle , and your mind clofe to yourself , you never will be a great man : Shakespeare ...
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