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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... night ; Upon the deck how often have I trod , Delighted - mufing on thy works , O God ! The curling waves , now glittering with white , Again , the colour of the fable night ; On one huge furge a purple hue I've feen , And on another an ...
... night ; Upon the deck how often have I trod , Delighted - mufing on thy works , O God ! The curling waves , now glittering with white , Again , the colour of the fable night ; On one huge furge a purple hue I've feen , And on another an ...
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... night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent flavour and quality ; instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm ...
... night for that purpose , and are well paid by the different passengers . The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent flavour and quality ; instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm ...
الصفحة 16
... night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire - flies , which sparkle like fire , a few of which , in the darkest room , give fuch light that you may read a book thereby . You will aso be ...
... night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire - flies , which sparkle like fire , a few of which , in the darkest room , give fuch light that you may read a book thereby . You will aso be ...
الصفحة 17
... night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to rest , Their humming fongs 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 , And were ...
... night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to rest , Their humming fongs 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 , And were ...
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... night and day , By a vile quack , condemn'd at once to die , " He's past all cure " -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art , Did wond'rous health and strength to me impart , Quacks , Quacks , in general ...
... night and day , By a vile quack , condemn'd at once to die , " He's past all cure " -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art , Did wond'rous health and strength to me impart , Quacks , Quacks , in general ...
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