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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... poor , proud , super- stitious and treacherous ; the finest of their wonen , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women should be compelled to whither out their days in such inglorious dens of ...
... poor , proud , super- stitious and treacherous ; the finest of their wonen , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women should be compelled to whither out their days in such inglorious dens of ...
الصفحة 14
... poor deluded nuns think those rogues are all faints , by whom they are taught to believe that superstition , ignorance and folly , are beaming vir- tues ; and no doubt but many of the poor beings , as flesh and blood , secluded from all ...
... poor deluded nuns think those rogues are all faints , by whom they are taught to believe that superstition , ignorance and folly , are beaming vir- tues ; and no doubt but many of the poor beings , as flesh and blood , secluded from all ...
الصفحة 15
... poor and dirty , they may be good flesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be chattering to them , or asking foolish questions on deck , or elsewhere : keep them ata proper distance , and they will respect and ...
... poor and dirty , they may be good flesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that is , to be chattering to them , or asking foolish questions on deck , or elsewhere : keep them ata proper distance , and they will respect and ...
الصفحة 16
... poor Africans , male and female , busy at their labour with hardly rags sufficient to secret their nakedness , will affect you not a little . At night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire ...
... poor Africans , male and female , busy at their labour with hardly rags sufficient to secret their nakedness , will affect you not a little . At night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire ...
الصفحة 27
... poor mortals are subject to , dry belly - achs are attended with the 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 ...
... poor mortals are subject to , dry belly - achs are attended with the 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 ...
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