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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A А MY DEAR FRIEND ! S I understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I presume 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 ...
A А MY DEAR FRIEND ! S I understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I presume 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 science , and commence Apollo . “ To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , “ It asks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher .
“ All abdicate their lawful trades to follow “ This injur'd science , and commence Apollo . “ To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , “ It asks 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 past 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 past all cure ” —a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art ...
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... he is looked upon as an Esculapeus 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 grass .
... he is looked upon as an Esculapeus 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 grass .
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... in a more elevated station ; and thereby the business is of course neglected , and the proprietor in England , through the ignorance of his attorney , or his good nature to support one of his poor friends , is materially injured .
... in a more elevated station ; and thereby the business is of course neglected , and the proprietor in England , through the ignorance of his attorney , or his good nature to support one of his poor friends , is materially injured .
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf