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 24
... dry will restrain perspiration , and may bring on an ague ; when yoor feet get
wet , though you be far from any house , rake off your shoes and stockings , wash
them and let them dry , and then put them on again " ; and if you wish to enjoy the
...
... dry will restrain perspiration , and may bring on an ague ; when yoor feet get
wet , though you be far from any house , rake off your shoes and stockings , wash
them and let them dry , and then put them on again " ; and if you wish to enjoy the
...
الصفحة 80
... four , or five years ; ' for he who would wish to be an overseer must serve his
time ; during which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , Aatter , lie
and diffemble , and bear all the overseer's insults and reproaches tamely without
...
... four , or five years ; ' for he who would wish to be an overseer must serve his
time ; during which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , Aatter , lie
and diffemble , and bear all the overseer's insults and reproaches tamely without
...
الصفحة 119
... Whose tender years the nice gradation prove , 16 When infant fondness ripens
into love ; “ There claspt in transport to her beating breast , “ Each ardent wish
without restraint pofsest : “ Raptures repeated on delight should rise , « Bloom o'
er ...
... Whose tender years the nice gradation prove , 16 When infant fondness ripens
into love ; “ There claspt in transport to her beating breast , “ Each ardent wish
without restraint pofsest : “ Raptures repeated on delight should rise , « Bloom o'
er ...
الصفحة 175
Though I would not wish you to seclude yourself entirely from public recreations ,
or private amusements , as they are at times conducive to health , yet I ardently
advise you to frequent those heart - knawing places of uproar and riot but feldom
...
Though I would not wish you to seclude yourself entirely from public recreations ,
or private amusements , as they are at times conducive to health , yet I ardently
advise you to frequent those heart - knawing places of uproar and riot but feldom
...
الصفحة 191
... ( for there is a harmony in prose as well as in verse ) .- As Pope says , « Speed
the soft intercourse from foul to soul , « . And waft a sigh from Indies to the Pole . "
I would wish you to have a small collection of well chosen books ; you never can
...
... ( for there is a harmony in prose as well as in verse ) .- As Pope says , « Speed
the soft intercourse from foul to soul , « . And waft a sigh from Indies to the Pole . "
I would wish you to have a small collection of well chosen books ; you never can
...
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