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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... pleafing to the mind , and truly delightful ! But fhould ftorms prevail to anger the dreadful ocean , and change the delightful fcene from gladnefs to horror , your mind will be impreffed with ideas of a different nature , the jarring ...
... pleafing to the mind , and truly delightful ! But fhould ftorms prevail to anger the dreadful ocean , and change the delightful fcene from gladnefs to horror , your mind will be impreffed with ideas of a different nature , the jarring ...
الصفحة 11
J. B. Moreton. It was always a moft pleafing fatisfaction to me when in one of those floating habitations , in the midst of feeming danger , thinking mo- mently fhe would overfet , to find her steadily re- turn to her original pofition ...
J. B. Moreton. It was always a moft pleafing fatisfaction to me when in one of those floating habitations , in the midst of feeming danger , thinking mo- mently fhe would overfet , to find her steadily re- turn to her original pofition ...
الصفحة 41
... pleafing fatisfaction , traverfing with a gun the lonely and unfrequented shades of the woods . These deep folitudes and awful cells , " Where heav'nly penfive contemplation dwells , " And ever - musing melancholy reigns . ” The trees ...
... pleafing fatisfaction , traverfing with a gun the lonely and unfrequented shades of the woods . These deep folitudes and awful cells , " Where heav'nly penfive contemplation dwells , " And ever - musing melancholy reigns . ” The trees ...
الصفحة 67
... pleafing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look . My flender adventure was prudently bought , And fuch as wou'd answer this market ...
... pleafing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look . My flender adventure was prudently bought , And fuch as wou'd answer this market ...
الصفحة 89
... pleafing to gentlemen to have families on their eftates ; a woman re- quires attendance , and may interfere with the management , fo as to influence her husband in the government of the rod ; besides , a lovely amiable white partner ...
... pleafing to gentlemen to have families on their eftates ; a woman re- quires attendance , and may interfere with the management , fo as to influence her husband in the government of the rod ; besides , a lovely amiable white partner ...
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