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 34
The theatre is a little , mean , narrow , close , fabrick ; there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are alfo two free mafon lodges ...
The theatre is a little , mean , narrow , close , fabrick ; there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are alfo two free mafon lodges ...
الصفحة 36
Every one of thofe grog fhop keepers keep a horfe and kitterine , that is , a one horfe chaife , and on fundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries , the fpoils of war ...
Every one of thofe grog fhop keepers keep a horfe and kitterine , that is , a one horfe chaife , and on fundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries , the fpoils of war ...
الصفحة 62
... after received very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhness ; that he took me to be a marfhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they 62 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... after received very politely ; he made feveral apologies for his rafhness ; that he took me to be a marfhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a fine fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they 62 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 63
fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived moft luxurioufly , in defiance of the law ! * / There is a law of the island favouring infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by rendering all his ...
fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived moft luxurioufly , in defiance of the law ! * / There is a law of the island favouring infolvent debtors , by which any perfon in the space of three months , by rendering all his ...
الصفحة 78
In Europe ; Great Britain and Ireland I fhould fay , it would render a gentleman of fortune odious in the community to take half a dozen ladies of eafy virtue into keeping at once ; in those countries frigid lovers tride away half their ...
In Europe ; Great Britain and Ireland I fhould fay , it would render a gentleman of fortune odious in the community to take half a dozen ladies of eafy virtue into keeping at once ; in those countries frigid lovers tride away half their ...
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