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 166
... first fign or appearance of inordinate defire ; -to regulate our paffions , and restrain them in proper bounds . Alas ! fo weak is our nature , that if we once get involved in the vortex of diffipation of any kind , we may never be ...
... first fign or appearance of inordinate defire ; -to regulate our paffions , and restrain them in proper bounds . Alas ! fo weak is our nature , that if we once get involved in the vortex of diffipation of any kind , we may never be ...
الصفحة 175
... first fetting out , has not more virtue and pru- dence than his employer , God help him ! He will cut but a poor figure in the Western hot world , and ftand a bad chance of preferment . Though great men , as they are stiled , gamble and ...
... first fetting out , has not more virtue and pru- dence than his employer , God help him ! He will cut but a poor figure in the Western hot world , and ftand a bad chance of preferment . Though great men , as they are stiled , gamble and ...
الصفحة 177
... itching for gaming ; or when you find a man whom you do not know , or are but flightly acquainted with , who at first or fecond meet- ing ing behaves uncommonly polite and civil to you , be IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 177.
... itching for gaming ; or when you find a man whom you do not know , or are but flightly acquainted with , who at first or fecond meet- ing ing behaves uncommonly polite and civil to you , be IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 177.
الصفحة 181
... ; Yet numbers are , I'll testify , Of diff'rent ftamp in crimfon dye ; The first of which mighty claffes , Are vain , proud , imperious affes ; Blufter 1 Bluftering bucks over - bearing , Haughty , proud , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 181.
... ; Yet numbers are , I'll testify , Of diff'rent ftamp in crimfon dye ; The first of which mighty claffes , Are vain , proud , imperious affes ; Blufter 1 Bluftering bucks over - bearing , Haughty , proud , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 181.
الصفحة 183
... first blow to any man ; always receive the first ; and if you are able , let the aggreffor be ever fo great or mighty , beat him to your own heart's content : if you only lift your hand , and point and shake it in a bullying threatening ...
... first blow to any man ; always receive the first ; and if you are able , let the aggreffor be ever fo great or mighty , beat him to your own heart's content : if you only lift your hand , and point and shake it in a bullying threatening ...
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