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 147
... by the direction of the book - keeper , who attends to call the lift , Here I must obferve , that it is very imprudent for an overfeer to inveft his bookkeepers with power to order a negroe more than one or two lashes in the courfe ...
... by the direction of the book - keeper , who attends to call the lift , Here I must obferve , that it is very imprudent for an overfeer to inveft his bookkeepers with power to order a negroe more than one or two lashes in the courfe ...
الصفحة 149
... Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , " And waste its sweetness on the defert air . ” On Sundays they are obliged to work all day in their grounds ; the book - keepers attend , and those who are abfent , without permiffion ...
... Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , " And waste its sweetness on the defert air . ” On Sundays they are obliged to work all day in their grounds ; the book - keepers attend , and those who are abfent , without permiffion ...
الصفحة 168
No man can attend his bufinefs attentively or feriously , who is fond of tippling ; — " Every inordinate cup is unblessed , and the ingredient is a devil . " A bacchanalian fhould never be intrufted with any property : for he who is not ...
No man can attend his bufinefs attentively or feriously , who is fond of tippling ; — " Every inordinate cup is unblessed , and the ingredient is a devil . " A bacchanalian fhould never be intrufted with any property : for he who is not ...
الصفحة 169
a candle in an improper place - neglecting a watch - are often attended with dreadful and fatal confequences . What an odious and ridiculous figure would the West India factor or fupercargo appear , when staggering in a Tavern or Coffee ...
a candle in an improper place - neglecting a watch - are often attended with dreadful and fatal confequences . What an odious and ridiculous figure would the West India factor or fupercargo appear , when staggering in a Tavern or Coffee ...
الصفحة 185
Pride and vanity commonly attend youth , and are hateful to God and man ; -avoid every symptom of both if you have merit , it will be dif covered by others ; yet you muft ftrive to keep yourself neat and clean ; and be not mimically in ...
Pride and vanity commonly attend youth , and are hateful to God and man ; -avoid every symptom of both if you have merit , it will be dif covered by others ; yet you muft ftrive to keep yourself neat and clean ; and be not mimically in ...
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