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
... their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and treacherous
; the finest of their wonnen , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ;
what piry that fine young women should be compelled to u hither out their days ...
... their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and treacherous
; the finest of their wonnen , some hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ;
what piry that fine young women should be compelled to u hither out their days ...
الصفحة 23
There are many task - masters , or employers , who care not how much young
men expose themselves to the weather , but such are cruel , uncharitable brutes
puffed up with ignorance and empty pride , who forget their own origin , and the ...
There are many task - masters , or employers , who care not how much young
men expose themselves to the weather , but such are cruel , uncharitable brutes
puffed up with ignorance and empty pride , who forget their own origin , and the ...
الصفحة 64
... c . whilft many English and Irish young men , though ever so clever , are often
hard fet to procure themselves the necessaries of life : I cannot conceive what the
difference can be owing to , unless it be that the Scotch are more enterprising ...
... c . whilft many English and Irish young men , though ever so clever , are often
hard fet to procure themselves the necessaries of life : I cannot conceive what the
difference can be owing to , unless it be that the Scotch are more enterprising ...
الصفحة 115
At last the day appointed came ; the morn was woeful to the sheep and swine ! it
was a woeful morn for the poultry , young pigeons , and young rabbits ! and a sad
and lamentable morn for the inhabitants of the woods and waters ! ' ere it was ...
At last the day appointed came ; the morn was woeful to the sheep and swine ! it
was a woeful morn for the poultry , young pigeons , and young rabbits ! and a sad
and lamentable morn for the inhabitants of the woods and waters ! ' ere it was ...
الصفحة 119
From what I have said you will , I suppose , conclude that I have been a vile
profligate , and that it is ungenerous in me to expose the foibles in young ladies ,
by whom I was so much favoured . In answer thereto , I only write to you as a
friend ...
From what I have said you will , I suppose , conclude that I have been a vile
profligate , and that it is ungenerous in me to expose the foibles in young ladies ,
by whom I was so much favoured . In answer thereto , I only write to you as a
friend ...
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