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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الصفحة 107
... speak and write sensibly though they act inconsistant and foolishly , which confirms what Dryden says : " Great wits to madness sure are near ally'd , " And thin partitions do their bounds divide . " Creole ladies who have been properly ...
... speak and write sensibly though they act inconsistant and foolishly , which confirms what Dryden says : " Great wits to madness sure are near ally'd , " And thin partitions do their bounds divide . " Creole ladies who have been properly ...
الصفحة 159
... speaking of or to each other , is Uncle , Aunty , Granny , Tatta , Momma , Sista , Boda . Though , a white man was to give a black or mungrel , 1000l . yearly , I don't think she could confine herself entirely to him only : their ...
... speaking of or to each other , is Uncle , Aunty , Granny , Tatta , Momma , Sista , Boda . Though , a white man was to give a black or mungrel , 1000l . yearly , I don't think she could confine herself entirely to him only : their ...
الصفحة 160
... speak so inconsistent as to en- deavour to put blacks upon a footing with whites ? In answer thereto , I say , that if the most virtuous woman now in England had been tutored like blacks , a slave in like manner , she would be as ...
... speak so inconsistent as to en- deavour to put blacks upon a footing with whites ? In answer thereto , I say , that if the most virtuous woman now in England had been tutored like blacks , a slave in like manner , she would be as ...
الصفحة 169
... speak their mind . The drunkard , like the jackdaw in the fable , blabbers every nonfenfe , and betrays himself and friends . " Drunkenness reveals what foberness conceals . " Wine and strong liquors affect men amazingly : some attempt ...
... speak their mind . The drunkard , like the jackdaw in the fable , blabbers every nonfenfe , and betrays himself and friends . " Drunkenness reveals what foberness conceals . " Wine and strong liquors affect men amazingly : some attempt ...
الصفحة 179
... speak to me ? " - " I am a gentleman , Sir . " - And pif- tols is the next word , of course , and so on , with every dasterly , ignorant , affrontful , litigi- ous brat , who knows almost as little of what he fain would arrogate to ...
... speak to me ? " - " I am a gentleman , Sir . " - And pif- tols is the next word , of course , and so on , with every dasterly , ignorant , affrontful , litigi- ous brat , who knows almost as little of what he fain would arrogate to ...
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