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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... nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and should what I shall ...
... nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ; I shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that island ; and should what I shall ...
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... nature , the jarring elements will fl your foul with wonder and terror ! What a beautiful and surprising structure ... natures walks , shoot folly as it flies , " And catch the manners living as they rife . " t It was always a most ...
... nature , the jarring elements will fl your foul with wonder and terror ! What a beautiful and surprising structure ... natures walks , shoot folly as it flies , " And catch the manners living as they rife . " t It was always a most ...
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... nature of your constitution ; for the generality of West - India doctors are not only very exorbitant in their charges , but what is still worse , they are ignorant pretending quacks , apothecaries boys , and such trash , who having a ...
... nature of your constitution ; for the generality of West - India doctors are not only very exorbitant in their charges , but what is still worse , they are ignorant pretending quacks , apothecaries boys , and such trash , who having a ...
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... nature of quacks : When I was a book - keeper in Clarendon , I was afflicted with a fever , till reduced to an insensible skeleton ; during which time Tartar Emetic at- tended me every day ; I swallowed all his nauseous preparations ...
... nature of quacks : When I was a book - keeper in Clarendon , I was afflicted with a fever , till reduced to an insensible skeleton ; during which time Tartar Emetic at- tended me every day ; I swallowed all his nauseous preparations ...
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... nature ; mercurial purgatives are of essential service , nor should the patient by any means be dissfuaded from taking them ; it is also necessary to get blooded , pro- vided always ( as they say in their acts of parlia- ment ) that ...
... nature ; mercurial purgatives are of essential service , nor should the patient by any means be dissfuaded from taking them ; it is also necessary to get blooded , pro- vided always ( as they say in their acts of parlia- ment ) that ...
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