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 133
... excess and debauchery . I was well acquainted with five of those reverend gentlemen , who , though they were married to amiable la- dies , wantonly roved from Mongrel to Mongrel , from black flower to black flower , and had spu- rious ...
... excess and debauchery . I was well acquainted with five of those reverend gentlemen , who , though they were married to amiable la- dies , wantonly roved from Mongrel to Mongrel , from black flower to black flower , and had spu- rious ...
الصفحة 166
... excess : bad company , and bad examples , have destroyed millions . I have known many who , at the age of twenty - one years , would as foon take a vomit or a purge , as a pint of wine or a glass of ftrong grog ; and yet those sober men ...
... excess : bad company , and bad examples , have destroyed millions . I have known many who , at the age of twenty - one years , would as foon take a vomit or a purge , as a pint of wine or a glass of ftrong grog ; and yet those sober men ...
الصفحة 167
... excess , wines , spirituous and malt liquors ; and wreck and strain their constitutions , till they break at last ; notwithstanding , the climate is censured for the murder of every man who poisons himself . It is wonderful , indeed ...
... excess , wines , spirituous and malt liquors ; and wreck and strain their constitutions , till they break at last ; notwithstanding , the climate is censured for the murder of every man who poisons himself . It is wonderful , indeed ...
الصفحة 168
... excess corrupt and inflame the blood - emaciate the whole frame , and dry up the course of nature : wine deprives a man of reason , strength and manhood ; and inspires him with wrong no- tions and false passions , which induces him to ...
... excess corrupt and inflame the blood - emaciate the whole frame , and dry up the course of nature : wine deprives a man of reason , strength and manhood ; and inspires him with wrong no- tions and false passions , which induces him to ...
الصفحة 171
... excess ; -those lofty swine - those mighty great beasts ! " great in their crimes , and glorious in their shame , " forget their low origin , and make no allowance for the frailties of others , but condemn them for the very darling ...
... excess ; -those lofty swine - those mighty great beasts ! " great in their crimes , and glorious in their shame , " forget their low origin , and make no allowance for the frailties of others , but condemn them for the very darling ...
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