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 Edition |
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MY DEAR FRIEND ! Α SI understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice ...
MY DEAR FRIEND ! Α SI understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice ...
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All abdicate their lawful trades to follow " This injur'd fcience , and commence Apollo . “ To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , " It afks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . ” AIR . My Friend and Pitcher .
All abdicate their lawful trades to follow " This injur'd fcience , and commence Apollo . “ To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , " It afks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . ” AIR . My Friend and Pitcher .
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When fick and languid on my bed I lay , In fainting fits the live long night and day , By a vile quack , condemn'd at once to die , " He's paft all cure " -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art ...
When fick and languid on my bed I lay , In fainting fits the live long night and day , By a vile quack , condemn'd at once to die , " He's paft all cure " -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art ...
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... he is looked upon as an Efculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grafs .
... he is looked upon as an Efculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grafs .
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... in a more elevated ftation ; and thereby the bufinefs is of courfe neglected , and the proprietor in England , through the ignorance of his attorney , or his good nature to fupport one of his poor friends , is materially injured .
... in a more elevated ftation ; and thereby the bufinefs is of courfe neglected , and the proprietor in England , through the ignorance of his attorney , or his good nature to fupport one of his poor friends , is materially injured .
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