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 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 ...
... 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 ...
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
... - deen , and Dublin , adminifters poifonous pills and ftuff with as much confequence as Millwood or Mead . What pity , that man should be fo grofsty impofed impofed on , or that phyfic fhould be thus abused 18 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... - deen , and Dublin , adminifters poifonous pills and ftuff with as much confequence as Millwood or Mead . What pity , that man should be fo grofsty impofed impofed on , or that phyfic fhould be thus abused 18 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 24
... Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impend- ing shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not ...
... Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impend- ing shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not ...
الصفحة 25
... should have a ftool once or twice daily . When your pulfe beat strong and faft , like the ticking of a watch ; when you feel a beating or reeling in your head ; a weakness in your eyes ; pains in your neck , back , fhoulders , or knees ...
... should have a ftool once or twice daily . When your pulfe beat strong and faft , like the ticking of a watch ; when you feel a beating or reeling in your head ; a weakness in your eyes ; pains in your neck , back , fhoulders , or knees ...
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