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 23
... but fuch are cruel , uncharitable brutes puffed up with ignorance and empty pride , who forget their own origin , and the mean and bafe دان bafe degrees by which they did afcend ; their hearts IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
... but fuch are cruel , uncharitable brutes puffed up with ignorance and empty pride , who forget their own origin , and the mean and bafe دان bafe degrees by which they did afcend ; their hearts IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
الصفحة 24
bafe degrees by which they did afcend ; their hearts are callous , for they never were tutored in the schools of humanity . Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to ...
bafe degrees by which they did afcend ; their hearts are callous , for they never were tutored in the schools of humanity . Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to ...
الصفحة 28
... be long and lafting , and never will bear ferious reflection without fome poignacy at heart ; as a man cannot put his finger into the fire without fcorching it , fo he cannot have connections with lewd women , and escape diseases .
... be long and lafting , and never will bear ferious reflection without fome poignacy at heart ; as a man cannot put his finger into the fire without fcorching it , fo he cannot have connections with lewd women , and escape diseases .
الصفحة 60
... and denominations of people are more friendly , kindly , and hofpitable , than in colder countries . I believe warm climates expand the heart with liberal liberal and generous ideas ; as there are not regular 60 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... and denominations of people are more friendly , kindly , and hofpitable , than in colder countries . I believe warm climates expand the heart with liberal liberal and generous ideas ; as there are not regular 60 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 68
... To paint the fad fcene , how matters go on : My heart it does jump , like a bird in a cage , And flutters about thro ' my breaft in a rage ; My brain is confus'd , and my fenfes are loft , To find all my schemes fo woefully croft .
... To paint the fad fcene , how matters go on : My heart it does jump , like a bird in a cage , And flutters about thro ' my breaft in a rage ; My brain is confus'd , and my fenfes are loft , To find all my schemes fo woefully croft .
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