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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... himself miferably mistaken ; for they will fecretly laugh at him , and impofe upon him to his face ; when a man is diffident of his abilities , he will act timerously ; and when a fubordinate perfon knows the ignorance of him who should ...
... himself miferably mistaken ; for they will fecretly laugh at him , and impofe upon him to his face ; when a man is diffident of his abilities , he will act timerously ; and when a fubordinate perfon knows the ignorance of him who should ...
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... himself , and thereby decoying about fifteen hundred overfeers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manoeuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his combination with griping ...
... himself , and thereby decoying about fifteen hundred overfeers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manoeuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his combination with griping ...
الصفحة 69
... himself at once of the European's property as his own ; and , regardless of love , honor and gratitude , forgets every tie of friendship , and pays not the least attention to the last request of his nearest and deareft deceased friend ...
... himself at once of the European's property as his own ; and , regardless of love , honor and gratitude , forgets every tie of friendship , and pays not the least attention to the last request of his nearest and deareft deceased friend ...
الصفحة 72
... himself of the whole eftate , whilst the mortgager reflects with horror on his extravagance and folly . It would be vastly better for a planter , when diftreffed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his ...
... himself of the whole eftate , whilst the mortgager reflects with horror on his extravagance and folly . It would be vastly better for a planter , when diftreffed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his ...
الصفحة 73
... himself , or compounds with the unfortunate proprietor for a few joes , and gets it by this , or some other base stratagem , into his poffeffion . He then clandeftinely invites all the run - aways to return , and that they fhall be ...
... himself , or compounds with the unfortunate proprietor for a few joes , and gets it by this , or some other base stratagem , into his poffeffion . He then clandeftinely invites all the run - aways to return , and that they fhall be ...
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