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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... most resplendent luminary of heaven , emerging from the azure horizon , gilding the ocean with a glittering hue ; to view the beauteous dolphin giving chase to myriads of flying - fish , promiscuously rifing and skimming the air like ...
... most resplendent luminary of heaven , emerging from the azure horizon , gilding the ocean with a glittering hue ; to view the beauteous dolphin giving chase to myriads of flying - fish , promiscuously rifing and skimming the air like ...
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... most rustic mind ; but to the man who is contempla- tively inclined , they produce the most sublime sensations , and are sources of extreme delight ; the changes and variety of colours of the waters , and the sparkling particles like ...
... most rustic mind ; but to the man who is contempla- tively inclined , they produce the most sublime sensations , and are sources of extreme delight ; the changes and variety of colours of the waters , and the sparkling particles like ...
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... most excru- tiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient fuffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of hell can equal it . Castor oil , which grows upon a shrub in the island , is the best ...
... most excru- tiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient fuffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of hell can equal it . Castor oil , which grows upon a shrub in the island , is the best ...
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... most skilful physician , will not have the defired effect , if the patient lives intemperately whilft he is taking them ; I was informed by medical gentlemen of judgment and veracity , that half the cure depends upon this . Buboes ...
... most skilful physician , will not have the defired effect , if the patient lives intemperately whilft he is taking them ; I was informed by medical gentlemen of judgment and veracity , that half the cure depends upon this . Buboes ...
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... most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre , when it rains heavy those swell to an amazing height , the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an ...
... most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre , when it rains heavy those swell to an amazing height , the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an ...
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