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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... should what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for hav ing employed a few vacant hours fo well . After your departue , you probably will be fea fick for ...
... should what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for hav ing employed a few vacant hours fo well . After your departue , you probably will be fea fick for ...
الصفحة 12
... should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few pounds of falt beef , or pork ; in fhort , as foon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glaffes of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner ...
... should have waited till they boarded us , and got their fees , which was a few pounds of falt beef , or pork ; in fhort , as foon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glaffes of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner ...
الصفحة 13
... should be compelled to whither out their days in fuch inglorious dens of folitude ? Deluded to think their prayers cannot reach heaven if not offered in goals : I was grieved to the foul whenever I faw any of them peeping through their ...
... should be compelled to whither out their days in fuch inglorious dens of folitude ? Deluded to think their prayers cannot reach heaven if not offered in goals : I was grieved to the foul whenever I faw any of them peeping through their ...
الصفحة 15
... should be blamed . I love failors ; -they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with contempt or difrefpect ; though ragged , poor and dirty , they may be good flesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that ...
... should be blamed . I love failors ; -they are generous , rough , uncouth beings ; do not treat them with contempt or difrefpect ; though ragged , poor and dirty , they may be good flesh and blood ; yet do not make free with them , that ...
الصفحة 18
... , Aberdeen , and Dublin , adminifters poifonous pills and ftuff with as much confequence as Millwood or Mead . What pity , that man should be fo grofsty impofed F A " impofed on , or that phyfic fhould be thus abused.
... , Aberdeen , and Dublin , adminifters poifonous pills and ftuff with as much confequence as Millwood or Mead . What pity , that man should be fo grofsty impofed F A " impofed on , or that phyfic fhould be thus abused.
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