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 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 13
to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows stand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ...
to and from their boats ; several lusty yellow fellows stand naked from morning ' till night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ...
الصفحة 16
At night you will think the air is on fire , occasioned by a sort of insects called fire - fies , which sparkle like fire , a few of which , in the darkest room , give such light that you may read a book thereby .
At night you will think the air is on fire , occasioned by a sort of insects called fire - fies , which sparkle like fire , a few of which , in the darkest room , give such light that you may read a book thereby .
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 18
I do not mean to advise you to employ a doctor on every night mark of indisposition ; I would wish you to be your own doctor in simple cases , and to study the nature of your constitucion ; for the generality of West - India doctors are ...
I do not mean to advise you to employ a doctor on every night mark of indisposition ; I would wish you to be your own doctor in simple cases , and to study the nature of your constitucion ; for the generality of West - India doctors are ...
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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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