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 175
... fond of gambling to be honeft , confequently they must be rogues ; the gamblers with to win , i . e . to impoverish their friends or neighbours . He is a rogue , in every fenfe of the word ! for he not only injures , or breaks himself ...
... fond of gambling to be honeft , confequently they must be rogues ; the gamblers with to win , i . e . to impoverish their friends or neighbours . He is a rogue , in every fenfe of the word ! for he not only injures , or breaks himself ...
الصفحة 176
... fond of gambling , or who don't prac- tice it merely for their amufement , without base , mercenary views , but through avaricious mo- tives , or for a livelihood , are the vileft of men , i . e . fharpers . Sharpers , in many places ...
... fond of gambling , or who don't prac- tice it merely for their amufement , without base , mercenary views , but through avaricious mo- tives , or for a livelihood , are the vileft of men , i . e . fharpers . Sharpers , in many places ...
الصفحة 178
... fond of gambling , therefore be cautious how you form connections with fuch : let your sphere of life be ever fo low , think it no honour to be parading at taverns or elsewhere with mili- tary gentry , leaft your friends think flenderly ...
... fond of gambling , therefore be cautious how you form connections with fuch : let your sphere of life be ever fo low , think it no honour to be parading at taverns or elsewhere with mili- tary gentry , leaft your friends think flenderly ...
الصفحة 188
... fond of controversy , or of entering into un- neceffary arguments . If you meet in company where quarrels or difputes arrife , fhould you not have have any particular friend attacked , be , neuter , 188 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... fond of controversy , or of entering into un- neceffary arguments . If you meet in company where quarrels or difputes arrife , fhould you not have have any particular friend attacked , be , neuter , 188 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 189
... fond of borrowing , or of lending , or of becoming fecurity for another , least you not only lose the loan and friend , but get yourself into a fnare . " Be not thou one of them that strike hands , or of them that are fecurities for ...
... fond of borrowing , or of lending , or of becoming fecurity for another , least you not only lose the loan and friend , but get yourself into a fnare . " Be not thou one of them that strike hands , or of them that are fecurities for ...
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