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, المجلد 8 |
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الصفحة 64
There are some extensive merchants in Kingstown, Spanish Town, Montego Bay,
&c. a few of whom are English and Irish, but ten times the number of Scotch ; they
all in general live elegantly ; it is not thought strange for a peafant's son from ...
There are some extensive merchants in Kingstown, Spanish Town, Montego Bay,
&c. a few of whom are English and Irish, but ten times the number of Scotch ; they
all in general live elegantly ; it is not thought strange for a peafant's son from ...
الصفحة 74
As attornies have the shipments of all the produce, they are courted by the
merchants and masters of vessels to freight their ships and give them quick
dispatch; they get valuable presents. The following is the nature of a letter from a
needy ...
As attornies have the shipments of all the produce, they are courted by the
merchants and masters of vessels to freight their ships and give them quick
dispatch; they get valuable presents. The following is the nature of a letter from a
needy ...
الصفحة 99
Now, as it appears from what I have faid, that clerks fave nothing, but rather
involve themselves in debt, you may alk, «• how is it possible that they can ever
become merchants, or great men?" It may indeed surprise you, as it often did me,
to fee ...
Now, as it appears from what I have faid, that clerks fave nothing, but rather
involve themselves in debt, you may alk, «• how is it possible that they can ever
become merchants, or great men?" It may indeed surprise you, as it often did me,
to fee ...
الصفحة 100
... and turn merchant; indeed any huckster or grog-shop keeper with care,
industry, and a little roguery, will make money fast, and may commence a
merchant; a young man who is sent out supercargo, if he conducts himself very
prudenrJy, ...
... and turn merchant; indeed any huckster or grog-shop keeper with care,
industry, and a little roguery, will make money fast, and may commence a
merchant; a young man who is sent out supercargo, if he conducts himself very
prudenrJy, ...
الصفحة 128
&c. for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars: lawyers, merchants and
clerks, &c. frequent such assemblies, and promiscuously meet and jostle each
other : I have spent many merry nights at such balls. When you are sometime in ...
&c. for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars: lawyers, merchants and
clerks, &c. frequent such assemblies, and promiscuously meet and jostle each
other : I have spent many merry nights at such balls. When you are sometime in ...
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| العنوان | 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, المجلد 8 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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