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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... fave only Meffrs . Grant and Broadbelt , the former of Kingston , and the latter of Spanish - town , whom you will find to be skilful and worthy characters ; they have protracted the days of thousands . What numbers of counterfeit , or ...
... fave only Meffrs . Grant and Broadbelt , the former of Kingston , and the latter of Spanish - town , whom you will find to be skilful and worthy characters ; they have protracted the days of thousands . What numbers of counterfeit , or ...
الصفحة 33
... fave only fome fmall spots here and there , which are cleared for guinea grafs , corn , and other provifions ; the fmall hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about ...
... fave only fome fmall spots here and there , which are cleared for guinea grafs , corn , and other provifions ; the fmall hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about ...
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... ( fave only country pre- judice ) more than in Great - Britain and Ireland , where the poor are defpifed by the rich . " Talk not of ancestors , nor of their ftate ; " Tis perfonal virtue only makes us great . ” And I fhould think it ...
... ( fave only country pre- judice ) more than in Great - Britain and Ireland , where the poor are defpifed by the rich . " Talk not of ancestors , nor of their ftate ; " Tis perfonal virtue only makes us great . ” And I fhould think it ...
الصفحة 93
... ( fave only Little Confequence before mentioned ) . When a young man gets into a good employ , I mean where the attorney , without favour or affection , makes it an established rule to prefer the oldest book - keepers in rotation , he ...
... ( fave only Little Confequence before mentioned ) . When a young man gets into a good employ , I mean where the attorney , without favour or affection , makes it an established rule to prefer the oldest book - keepers in rotation , he ...
الصفحة 98
... fave fix- pence , if he lives and appears in the manner clerks generally do ; nay , it will be good œco- nomy if he keeps himself clear of debt ; clerks drefs more fashionable and gay than overfeers or book - keepers , and shift once or ...
... fave fix- pence , if he lives and appears in the manner clerks generally do ; nay , it will be good œco- nomy if he keeps himself clear of debt ; clerks drefs more fashionable and gay than overfeers or book - keepers , and shift once or ...
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