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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... frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the deluded nuns think thofe rogues are all faints , by whom they are taught to believe that fuperftition , ignorance and folly , are beaming virtues ; and no doubt ...
... frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the deluded nuns think thofe rogues are all faints , by whom they are taught to believe that fuperftition , ignorance and folly , are beaming virtues ; and no doubt ...
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... frequent perfpirations , internally and externally , and other evacuations , they feldom enjoy a right ftate of health . If you take care of yourself in the beginning , you probably may prevent a fit of fickness which otherwife may ...
... frequent perfpirations , internally and externally , and other evacuations , they feldom enjoy a right ftate of health . If you take care of yourself in the beginning , you probably may prevent a fit of fickness which otherwife may ...
الصفحة 21
... frequently drunk , which is very wrong , for they often adminifter medicine when they are deprived of their fenfes , and visit their patients in fuch conditions . When a doctor ( as he is called ) gets the quackery of two or three ...
... frequently drunk , which is very wrong , for they often adminifter medicine when they are deprived of their fenfes , and visit their patients in fuch conditions . When a doctor ( as he is called ) gets the quackery of two or three ...
الصفحة 22
... frequent and often fatal attendants , not only on Esropeans , but Creoles alfo ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my flesh melted , or stole away from my fkin and bones , till I became the ghoft of what I had been . To - day ...
... frequent and often fatal attendants , not only on Esropeans , but Creoles alfo ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my flesh melted , or stole away from my fkin and bones , till I became the ghoft of what I had been . To - day ...
الصفحة 23
... frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never experienced the bad effect of fuch ill - timed bathing afterwards . When I quitted the fevere toils of a planter's life , and lived regular in town , I found the climate ...
... frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never experienced the bad effect of fuch ill - timed bathing afterwards . When I quitted the fevere toils of a planter's life , and lived regular in town , I found the climate ...
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