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 160
norance is such , that they see nothing moral from their infancy , but whoring , and scenes of the vilest debauchery ; -- they are taught it at their plays -- they are taught it by their masters and overseers , as I have said before .
norance is such , that they see nothing moral from their infancy , but whoring , and scenes of the vilest debauchery ; -- they are taught it at their plays -- they are taught it by their masters and overseers , as I have said before .
الصفحة 162
... of flavery as they are always act in a steady medium towards them ; never tell them a lie , nor exact any thing unreasonable from them ; and be attentive to see that all your directions are faithfully and punctually executed .
... of flavery as they are always act in a steady medium towards them ; never tell them a lie , nor exact any thing unreasonable from them ; and be attentive to see that all your directions are faithfully and punctually executed .
الصفحة 169
What a pernicious . enemy must that be , which transform's man , God's own image , to a level with the brute creation ? could but see his own stupid picture properly , when intoxicated , he would hate himself : a drunkard reels and ...
What a pernicious . enemy must that be , which transform's man , God's own image , to a level with the brute creation ? could but see his own stupid picture properly , when intoxicated , he would hate himself : a drunkard reels and ...
الصفحة 172
... of receiving some matrimonial comfort at nightcapable of yielding and receiving pure and innocent bliss ! -- eyes sparkling with vigorous passion , and smiling compliance , to see him who fhould realize all her imaginary joys ...
... of receiving some matrimonial comfort at nightcapable of yielding and receiving pure and innocent bliss ! -- eyes sparkling with vigorous passion , and smiling compliance , to see him who fhould realize all her imaginary joys ...
الصفحة 175
Though great men , as they are stited , gamble and revill to excess on the properties of others , as they are not immediately under the eyes of their creditors , yet they don't like to see their clerks addicted to those abominable vices ...
Though great men , as they are stited , gamble and revill to excess on the properties of others , as they are not immediately under the eyes of their creditors , yet they don't like to see their clerks addicted to those abominable vices ...
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