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 91
... Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delufive dreams , fo that every adventurer is buoyed up with the chimerical notion of acquiring abundance of wealth without much . difficulty , but not one in forty fucceeds ...
... Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delufive dreams , fo that every adventurer is buoyed up with the chimerical notion of acquiring abundance of wealth without much . difficulty , but not one in forty fucceeds ...
الصفحة 92
... Indies are fo over - run with the fons of peasantry , from different parts of Great - Britain and Ireland , particularly from Scotland , the latter well educated men in general , that it is very difficult for poor men of any other ...
... Indies are fo over - run with the fons of peasantry , from different parts of Great - Britain and Ireland , particularly from Scotland , the latter well educated men in general , that it is very difficult for poor men of any other ...
الصفحة 100
... Indies , they are only factors ; and here I muft obferve , that I have often wondered how European merchants can poffibly give fuch large and long credits to those factors , confidering the precarioufnefs of life , the uncertainty of ...
... Indies , they are only factors ; and here I muft obferve , that I have often wondered how European merchants can poffibly give fuch large and long credits to those factors , confidering the precarioufnefs of life , the uncertainty of ...
الصفحة 101
... Indies . The next mancevre is to get himself chosen one of the council or affiftant judges ; in order to accomplish which , he artfully infinuates himself into the favour of the commander in chief , or the prefident , by giving a few ...
... Indies . The next mancevre is to get himself chosen one of the council or affiftant judges ; in order to accomplish which , he artfully infinuates himself into the favour of the commander in chief , or the prefident , by giving a few ...
الصفحة 104
... Indies . " When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice ; but when the wicked beareth rule , the people murmur . ' From all I have now faid , you may be affured , that if you do not behave yourself courteously , humble , and ...
... Indies . " When the righteous are in authority , the people rejoice ; but when the wicked beareth rule , the people murmur . ' From all I have now faid , you may be affured , that if you do not behave yourself courteously , humble , and ...
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