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 13
J. B. Moreton. 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 ...
J. B. Moreton. 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 20
When the messenger returned , which was some hours after , my brother book -
keeper , who had some compassion for me , brought a bottle of the wine into my
room , and made me take a glass of it , and in a little time after gave me more ...
When the messenger returned , which was some hours after , my brother book -
keeper , who had some compassion for me , brought a bottle of the wine into my
room , and made me take a glass of it , and in a little time after gave me more ...
الصفحة 168
Wine and strong liquors taken to excess corrupt and inflame the blood - emaciate
the whole frame , and dry up the course of nature : wine deprives a man of
reason , strength and manhood ; and inspires and inspires him with wrong
notions ...
Wine and strong liquors taken to excess corrupt and inflame the blood - emaciate
the whole frame , and dry up the course of nature : wine deprives a man of
reason , strength and manhood ; and inspires and inspires him with wrong
notions ...
الصفحة 169
Wine and strong liquors affect men amazingly : some attempt difficulties , hazards
and enter . prizes , which when sober they could not encounter : wine makes the
trembling coward valliant , the stuttering fool loquacious , the man of sense an ...
Wine and strong liquors affect men amazingly : some attempt difficulties , hazards
and enter . prizes , which when sober they could not encounter : wine makes the
trembling coward valliant , the stuttering fool loquacious , the man of sense an ...
الصفحة 170
Wine makes the religious man wicked , and the wicked - inclined man a devil ! so
that men , when drunk , differ as much in their temper as in their faces . Some
dance , others sing or roar loudly , spout or quarrel ; some are lulled to seep , and
...
Wine makes the religious man wicked , and the wicked - inclined man a devil ! so
that men , when drunk , differ as much in their temper as in their faces . Some
dance , others sing or roar loudly , spout or quarrel ; some are lulled to seep , and
...
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