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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الصفحة 10
... and skimming the air like birds , to evade them ; with sharks , porpoises and bonnettas innumerable all around , seeming to welcome each newborn day , are objects grateful to the eye . pleasing to the mind , and truly delightful !
... and skimming the air like birds , to evade them ; with sharks , porpoises and bonnettas innumerable all around , seeming to welcome each newborn day , are objects grateful to the eye . pleasing to the mind , and truly delightful !
الصفحة 11
By night , too , the grand and awful beauties of the deep are a luxury to the most rustic mind ; but to the man who is contemplatively inclined , they produce the most sublime sensations , and are sources of extreme delight ...
By night , too , the grand and awful beauties of the deep are a luxury to the most rustic mind ; but to the man who is contemplatively inclined , they produce the most sublime sensations , and are sources of extreme delight ...
الصفحة 17
Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to rest , Their humming songs kept me in dread , And fore my mind oppress'd . . They wounded me in ev'ry part , My face and body o'er , My legs and thighs oft felt their smart ...
Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to rest , Their humming songs kept me in dread , And fore my mind oppress'd . . They wounded me in ev'ry part , My face and body o'er , My legs and thighs oft felt their smart ...
الصفحة 40
Though I am naturally fond of misth and society , yet I often like retirement , and have ofien enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped 1 1 wrapped in dear delightful solitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
Though I am naturally fond of misth and society , yet I often like retirement , and have ofien enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped 1 1 wrapped in dear delightful solitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 67
... I translated it as follows : Dear Mofes , this chance is most pleasing to me , To send the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look .
... I translated it as follows : Dear Mofes , this chance is most pleasing to me , To send the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look .
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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 Eighteenth century 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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