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
... fave nothing , but rather involve them- felves 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 , to fee brats of fhop boys , and even ...
... fave nothing , but rather involve them- felves 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 , to fee brats of fhop boys , and even ...
الصفحة 136
... fave infurance ; and from their being ftowed fo close together , about fixteen thousand are computed to die during their voy- age ; about thirty thousand more die in the feafoning ; and the reft wither out their exiftance , as I fhall ...
... fave infurance ; and from their being ftowed fo close together , about fixteen thousand are computed to die during their voy- age ; about thirty thousand more die in the feafoning ; and the reft wither out their exiftance , as I fhall ...
الصفحة 143
... fave his eyes , his nofe , ears , & c . by lifting up his hand in his own defence , he is in- ftantly brought to tryal before two or three cal- liloo juftices , and immediately tucked up ; this is , I appeal to all the world , a more ...
... fave his eyes , his nofe , ears , & c . by lifting up his hand in his own defence , he is in- ftantly brought to tryal before two or three cal- liloo juftices , and immediately tucked up ; this is , I appeal to all the world , a more ...
الصفحة 187
... fave while you may ; " No morning fun lasts a whole day . ” Indolence and idlenefs are the roots of all evil : " Go to the Ant , thou fluggard , confider her ways , & c . " Flatter no man , for it is very mean ; nor liften with ...
... fave while you may ; " No morning fun lasts a whole day . ” Indolence and idlenefs are the roots of all evil : " Go to the Ant , thou fluggard , confider her ways , & c . " Flatter no man , for it is very mean ; nor liften with ...
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