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 85
... foon honoured with the appellation of the beau planter ; in short , he was the prince and emperor of coxcombs , and was making a fortune rapidly , until an unlucky circumstance transpired , which blasted and ruined his reputation ever ...
... foon honoured with the appellation of the beau planter ; in short , he was the prince and emperor of coxcombs , and was making a fortune rapidly , until an unlucky circumstance transpired , which blasted and ruined his reputation ever ...
الصفحة 100
... of getting paid at all , by adopting either mild , litegative , or coercive methods . " Look round , and fee what others do , " Would you be rich and honeft too . " As As foon as a man gets possession of some pro- 100 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... of getting paid at all , by adopting either mild , litegative , or coercive methods . " Look round , and fee what others do , " Would you be rich and honeft too . " As As foon as a man gets possession of some pro- 100 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 101
J. B. Moreton. As foon as a man gets possession of some pro- perty , though it may be all on credit , or at best three fourths of it , he is stimulated by cruel pride and haughty ambition to signalize himself in some public character ...
J. B. Moreton. As foon as a man gets possession of some pro- perty , though it may be all on credit , or at best three fourths of it , he is stimulated by cruel pride and haughty ambition to signalize himself in some public character ...
الصفحة 112
... foon gets a number of admirers , and at last some English sharper , Irish fortune - hunter , or Scotch gentle- man worth nothing , makes her an honest wo- man . After Creole masters and misses have been some years in England , and ...
... foon gets a number of admirers , and at last some English sharper , Irish fortune - hunter , or Scotch gentle- man worth nothing , makes her an honest wo- man . After Creole masters and misses have been some years in England , and ...
الصفحة 113
... foon wears off , till they return to their original creo- lifm . " Send a goose to Dover , " And a goose it will come over . " Creole sisters living in the country , though single , have commonly each a number of sheep , goats , swine ...
... foon wears off , till they return to their original creo- lifm . " Send a goose to Dover , " And a goose it will come over . " Creole sisters living in the country , though single , have commonly each a number of sheep , goats , swine ...
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