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 104
... Jamaica , but all over the West 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 ...
... Jamaica , but all over the West 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 ...
الصفحة 108
... Jamaica from their infancy , are foft , innocent , ambitious , flirting play - things ; and in a more particular manner , those who are retired in the country ; when they drefs , they de- corate themselves elegantly : abroad they appear ...
... Jamaica from their infancy , are foft , innocent , ambitious , flirting play - things ; and in a more particular manner , those who are retired in the country ; when they drefs , they de- corate themselves elegantly : abroad they appear ...
الصفحة 119
... Jamaica dear ! Sweet fertile ifle , where genial friendly rays , And verdure crown eternally the year ! Deareft favourite of the torrid zone , Whom nature , bounteous , sheds her bleffings o'er , Where chilling blasts are never , never ...
... Jamaica dear ! Sweet fertile ifle , where genial friendly rays , And verdure crown eternally the year ! Deareft favourite of the torrid zone , Whom nature , bounteous , sheds her bleffings o'er , Where chilling blasts are never , never ...
الصفحة 124
... Jamaica , was attorney for thirty or forty plantations , and fuppofed to be worth 4 or 500l . fterling . As for Mongrel women , though the daughters of rich men , and though poffeffed of flaves and eftates 1 estates , they never think ...
... Jamaica , was attorney for thirty or forty plantations , and fuppofed to be worth 4 or 500l . fterling . As for Mongrel women , though the daughters of rich men , and though poffeffed of flaves and eftates 1 estates , they never think ...
الصفحة 132
... a deep ditch , and a strange woman is a narrow pit . " --- From all I have faid , you may form fome idea of the scenes of profligacy and diffipation prac- tifed 1 tifed in Jamaica , and how much religion is abused 132 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... a deep ditch , and a strange woman is a narrow pit . " --- From all I have faid , you may form fome idea of the scenes of profligacy and diffipation prac- tifed 1 tifed in Jamaica , and how much religion is abused 132 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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