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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... wipe yourself dry and dress quickly ; but by no means attempt to tamper with
your constitution as I have done , by plunging into a cold - bach in the heat of the
day ; for I suppose thousands and thousands have by that means caused their ...
... wipe yourself dry and dress quickly ; but by no means attempt to tamper with
your constitution as I have done , by plunging into a cold - bach in the heat of the
day ; for I suppose thousands and thousands have by that means caused their ...
الصفحة 89
and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their insulting tyrannic behaviour
to their raw book - keepers , or exposing the blemishes of their absent
neighbouring acquaintances ; or of corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and
means they ...
and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their insulting tyrannic behaviour
to their raw book - keepers , or exposing the blemishes of their absent
neighbouring acquaintances ; or of corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and
means they ...
الصفحة 127
Never strive to seduce your friend or employer's kepe - mistress , for it is mean ,
and will injure you with batchelors in ... heart could devise against me ; by which
means my employer treated me so ill , that I was obliged to discharge myself .
Never strive to seduce your friend or employer's kepe - mistress , for it is mean ,
and will injure you with batchelors in ... heart could devise against me ; by which
means my employer treated me so ill , that I was obliged to discharge myself .
الصفحة 132
In hiftory we read that the greatest misfortunes have attended men through the
means of women ; and we see instances daily of the base dissimulating
stratagems of the sex , by the numbers who are brought to the gallows through
their means ...
In hiftory we read that the greatest misfortunes have attended men through the
means of women ; and we see instances daily of the base dissimulating
stratagems of the sex , by the numbers who are brought to the gallows through
their means ...
الصفحة 174
... in an office , should not , by any means , accustom himself to drink any thing
stronger than water before dinner ; nor should such a person tipple at grog , or
other liquors , in the evening or at night , leaft he , in process of time , becomes a
sot .
... in an office , should not , by any means , accustom himself to drink any thing
stronger than water before dinner ; nor should such a person tipple at grog , or
other liquors , in the evening or at night , leaft he , in process of time , becomes a
sot .
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