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 91
Some years ago the West Indies suited poor adventurers vaftly better than at prefent ; formerly tranfports acquired large properties ; it was not thought ftrange for convicts after fix or feven years bondage was over to enter into ...
Some years ago the West Indies suited poor adventurers vaftly better than at prefent ; formerly tranfports acquired large properties ; it was not thought ftrange for convicts after fix or feven years bondage was over to enter into ...
الصفحة 98
... one time or another he will be a merchant ; well knowing that almost every Weft - India merchant was nothing better originally than a clerk , I I I I a clerk , therefore they wear fine waistcoats and florentine 98 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... one time or another he will be a merchant ; well knowing that almost every Weft - India merchant was nothing better originally than a clerk , I I I I a clerk , therefore they wear fine waistcoats and florentine 98 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 103
It is not eftates or titles that makes one man better than another ; men only excell in fouls and fentiments . When judges or magistrates shew favour or affection , hatred or malice , to any particular individual ( even to the poor tar ...
It is not eftates or titles that makes one man better than another ; men only excell in fouls and fentiments . When judges or magistrates shew favour or affection , hatred or malice , to any particular individual ( even to the poor tar ...
الصفحة 110
Notwithstanding the little foibles of Creole women , they have many good qualifications , and are vastly better than the men , and much cleanlier in fome refpects than British or Irish women . It is often the cafe for the little ...
Notwithstanding the little foibles of Creole women , they have many good qualifications , and are vastly better than the men , and much cleanlier in fome refpects than British or Irish women . It is often the cafe for the little ...
الصفحة 111
... whilft they are fupported by him in idleness : -his better half tells him , " My dear , if you love me , you should love my relations and friends also ; my dear , if you wish to support me and my little ones , you fhould fupport ...
... whilft they are fupported by him in idleness : -his better half tells him , " My dear , if you love me , you should love my relations and friends also ; my dear , if you wish to support me and my little ones , you fhould fupport ...
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