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 20
When the messenger returned , which was some hours after , my brother book - keeper , who had some compassion for me , brought a bottle of the wine into my room , and made me take a glass of it , and in a little time after gave me more ...
When the messenger returned , which was some hours after , my brother book - keeper , who had some compassion for me , brought a bottle of the wine into my room , and made me take a glass of it , and in a little time after gave me more ...
الصفحة 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you see an impending shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
الصفحة 26
... when a person is confined to his bed , some careful , discreet , black woman , should be appointed to attend him all day and night . Therefore let me request , that when you find yourself indisposed as I have mentioned , you will ...
... when a person is confined to his bed , some careful , discreet , black woman , should be appointed to attend him all day and night . Therefore let me request , that when you find yourself indisposed as I have mentioned , you will ...
الصفحة 27
A consumption proceeds from whatever corrupts the blood , or obstructs the circulation of the vessels , some impediment in the lungs , or from long continued coughs , pleurisies , intemperance , ill - cured venerials , or hard study ...
A consumption proceeds from whatever corrupts the blood , or obstructs the circulation of the vessels , some impediment in the lungs , or from long continued coughs , pleurisies , intemperance , ill - cured venerials , or hard study ...
الصفحة 28
... be long and lasting , and never will bear serious reflection without some poignacy at heart ; as a man cannot put his finger into the fire without scorching it , so he cannot have connections with lewd women , and escape diseases .
... be long and lasting , and never will bear serious reflection without some poignacy at heart ; as a man cannot put his finger into the fire without scorching it , so he cannot have connections with lewd women , and escape diseases .
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