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 99
... appears from what I have said , that clerks fave nothing , but rather involve themfelves in debt , you may ask , " how is it poffible that they can ever become merchants , or great men ? " It may indeed furprise you , as it often did me ...
... appears from what I have said , that clerks fave nothing , but rather involve themfelves in debt , you may ask , " how is it poffible that they can ever become merchants , or great men ? " It may indeed furprise you , as it often did me ...
الصفحة 104
... appear who are chosen out from among the reft to distribute juftice , when they are capable of corruption ? —and I am forry to be obliged to fay that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ...
... appear who are chosen out from among the reft to distribute juftice , when they are capable of corruption ? —and I am forry to be obliged to fay that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ...
الصفحة 105
... appear ridiculously gay , and at home flovenly and dirty ; and when deprived of the advantage of an European education , are affuming and prefuming , negroefied , aukward , ignorant guegaws ; their darling amusements are confined to ...
... appear ridiculously gay , and at home flovenly and dirty ; and when deprived of the advantage of an European education , are affuming and prefuming , negroefied , aukward , ignorant guegaws ; their darling amusements are confined to ...
الصفحة 108
... themselves elegantly : abroad they appear as neat as if they came out of band - boxes , lovely and engaging - at home , diametrically the reverse , • I verse . If you furprize them , as I have 108 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... themselves elegantly : abroad they appear as neat as if they came out of band - boxes , lovely and engaging - at home , diametrically the reverse , • I verse . If you furprize them , as I have 108 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 122
... appear and act like men , and not like baboons or affes . One thing more I recommend to you ; if you wish to keep in favour with the fair , never contradict them , but coincide with them in their impertinences and little abfurdities ...
... appear and act like men , and not like baboons or affes . One thing more I recommend to you ; if you wish to keep in favour with the fair , never contradict them , but coincide with them in their impertinences and little abfurdities ...
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