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 172
... fond credulity , or parental authority , buried alive with a drunken confort : After having adorned her mind and body with every re- finement fufficient to make a virtuous man happy , after having reftrained all her longing defires ...
... fond credulity , or parental authority , buried alive with a drunken confort : After having adorned her mind and body with every re- finement fufficient to make a virtuous man happy , after having reftrained all her longing defires ...
الصفحة 175
... fond of gambling to be honeft , confequently they muft 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 muft 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 controverfy , or of entering into un- neceffary arguments . If you meet in company where quarrels or disputes arrise , should you not have have any particular friend attacked , be neuter , and 188 . MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... fond of controverfy , or of entering into un- neceffary arguments . If you meet in company where quarrels or disputes arrise , should you not have have any particular friend attacked , be neuter , and 188 . MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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