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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الصفحة 51
... such vast labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book - keepers , or , as they are called in the ...
... such vast labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book - keepers , or , as they are called in the ...
الصفحة 54
... such charges away , and to get the lee ciftern wafhed well ; for the lees of any bad charge , as I have already mentioned , will , though fet ever fo pure and cool , fpoil any other mixture they are put to ; this I have learned from ...
... such charges away , and to get the lee ciftern wafhed well ; for the lees of any bad charge , as I have already mentioned , will , though fet ever fo pure and cool , fpoil any other mixture they are put to ; this I have learned from ...
الصفحة 55
... such mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of adventurers in the planting line , who have any hopes of preferment , think ...
... such mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of adventurers in the planting line , who have any hopes of preferment , think ...
الصفحة 68
... Such barbarous redicule hurted me fore , ' Till we came to anchor , and I fhore . got a But how fhall I alter the theme of my song , To paint the fad fcene , how matters go on : My heart it does jump , like a bird in a cage , And ...
... Such barbarous redicule hurted me fore , ' Till we came to anchor , and I fhore . got a But how fhall I alter the theme of my song , To paint the fad fcene , how matters go on : My heart it does jump , like a bird in a cage , And ...
الصفحة 70
... Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but provoke my fcorn . " An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently ...
... Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but provoke my fcorn . " An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently ...
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