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 55
Having shewn the different proportions for mixing of liquors , I shall next shew an
easy and exact method of calculating them without measuring the liquors ; if the
vats or cisterns are equally round or square at bottom and top , let the exact ...
Having shewn the different proportions for mixing of liquors , I shall next shew an
easy and exact method of calculating them without measuring the liquors ; if the
vats or cisterns are equally round or square at bottom and top , let the exact ...
الصفحة 82
As Dryden says , 1 1 His hair and beard are of a diff'rent dye ; Lame of one leg ,
distorted in one eye ; Shew all these tokens of a rogue complete , If he be honest
, he's a dev'lish cheat . He commonly for the negroes to work at wrong sealons ...
As Dryden says , 1 1 His hair and beard are of a diff'rent dye ; Lame of one leg ,
distorted in one eye ; Shew all these tokens of a rogue complete , If he be honest
, he's a dev'lish cheat . He commonly for the negroes to work at wrong sealons ...
الصفحة 118
ouny , for captain M Kill - all ( which was the of ficer's name ) being pert and raw ,
proud and ignorant , like many other military puppies , to shew his courage ,
challenged and fought one of the gentlemen next morning , and unfortunately
MʻKill ...
ouny , for captain M Kill - all ( which was the of ficer's name ) being pert and raw ,
proud and ignorant , like many other military puppies , to shew his courage ,
challenged and fought one of the gentlemen next morning , and unfortunately
MʻKill ...
الصفحة 131
... as to have their freedom recorded , and to get possession of Naves and estates
! and as soon as these African queens became mistresses , to flog and torture
most cruelly on all occasions , their faves and former companions , to shew their ...
... as to have their freedom recorded , and to get possession of Naves and estates
! and as soon as these African queens became mistresses , to flog and torture
most cruelly on all occasions , their faves and former companions , to shew their ...
الصفحة 179
This fort of gentry , in almost every company , expose their ignorance and shew
their pedantry , by boasting of their great connections , courage and gallantry :
even those who may not have a grain of merit in their gross compositions .-- " I
have ...
This fort of gentry , in almost every company , expose their ignorance and shew
their pedantry , by boasting of their great connections , courage and gallantry :
even those who may not have a grain of merit in their gross compositions .-- " I
have ...
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