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
... West Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delufive dreams , fo that every ad- venturer is buoyed up with the chimerical notion of acquiring abundance of wealth without much difficulty , but not one in forty ...
... West Indies ; their minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delufive dreams , fo that every ad- venturer is buoyed up with the chimerical notion of acquiring abundance of wealth without much difficulty , but not one in forty ...
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 edu- cated 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 edu- cated men in general , that it is very difficult for poor men of any other ...
الصفحة 100
... West 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 thofe fators , confidering the precarioufnefs of life , the uncertainty ...
... West 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 thofe fators , confidering the precarioufnefs of life , the uncertainty ...
الصفحة 101
... West Indies . The next manovre is to get himself chofen one of the council or affiftant judges ; in order to accomplish which , he artfully infinuates himfelf into the favour of the commander in chief , or the prefident , by giving a ...
... West Indies . The next manovre is to get himself chofen one of the council or affiftant judges ; in order to accomplish which , he artfully infinuates himfelf into the favour of the commander in chief , or the prefident , by giving a ...
الصفحة 104
... 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 yourself courteously , humble ...
... 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 yourself courteously , humble ...
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