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 Edition |
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الصفحة 99
Now , as it appears from what I have said , that clerks save nothing , but rather involve themselves in debt , you may ask , “ how is it possible that they can ever become merchants , or great men ? ” It may indeed surprise you , as it ...
Now , as it appears from what I have said , that clerks save nothing , but rather involve themselves in debt , you may ask , “ how is it possible that they can ever become merchants , or great men ? ” It may indeed surprise you , as it ...
الصفحة 104
How odious must men appear who are chosen out from among the rest to distribute justice , when they are capable of corruption ? -and I am sorry to be obliged to say that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica , but all ...
How odious must men appear who are chosen out from among the rest to distribute justice , when they are capable of corruption ? -and I am sorry to be obliged to say that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica , but all ...
الصفحة 105
They are amazing fond of costly , tinsel frippery ; abroad they appear ridiculously gay , and at home flovenly and dirty ; and when deprived of the advantage of an European education , are assuming and presuming , negroefied , aukward ...
They are amazing fond of costly , tinsel frippery ; abroad they appear ridiculously gay , and at home flovenly and dirty ; and when deprived of the advantage of an European education , are assuming and presuming , negroefied , aukward ...
الصفحة 108
... those who are retired in the country ; when they dress , they decorate themselves elegantly : abroad they appear as neat as if they came out of band - boxes , lovely and engaging at home , diametrically the reverse .
... those who are retired in the country ; when they dress , they decorate themselves elegantly : abroad they appear as neat as if they came out of band - boxes , lovely and engaging at home , diametrically the reverse .
الصفحة 122
Yet , I would not have you be one of those fashionable monkies , constantly dangling after the sex , carrying the lap dog of one , and the fan or Nippers of another - no , women like men to appear and act like men , and not like baboons ...
Yet , I would not have you be one of those fashionable monkies , constantly dangling after the sex , carrying the lap dog of one , and the fan or Nippers of another - no , women like men to appear and act like men , and not like baboons ...
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| العنوان | 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 Edition |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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