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 149
... hand , and with a ftroke chopped off his right hand ! What must the feelings and agitations of poor Hector's heart have been to commit fuch a desperate act on himself ? What a brave general , or valiant admiral , might that man have ...
... hand , and with a ftroke chopped off his right hand ! What must the feelings and agitations of poor Hector's heart have been to commit fuch a desperate act on himself ? What a brave general , or valiant admiral , might that man have ...
الصفحة 161
... hand of ftern op- Those mighty men , stores , remain year after year , till at laft they get naturalized to the ... hands , leaft the negroes get them , and plunder the stores at night : poor creatures , they are fo ftinted that it ...
... hand of ftern op- Those mighty men , stores , remain year after year , till at laft they get naturalized to the ... hands , leaft the negroes get them , and plunder the stores at night : poor creatures , they are fo ftinted that it ...
الصفحة 162
... hands of the Algerines , we would be as liable to all the galling fmarts of flavery as they are : always act in a steady medium towards them ; never tell them a lie , nor exact any thing unreasonable from them ; and be attentive to fee ...
... hands of the Algerines , we would be as liable to all the galling fmarts of flavery as they are : always act in a steady medium towards them ; never tell them a lie , nor exact any thing unreasonable from them ; and be attentive to fee ...
الصفحة 176
... hands , when in private ; and it would take a large volume to particularize ( was I capable ) one - tenth part of ... hand . They , in private , put private marks upon the cards and feal them as before , which they deli- ver to the ...
... hands , when in private ; and it would take a large volume to particularize ( was I capable ) one - tenth part of ... hand . They , in private , put private marks upon the cards and feal them as before , which they deli- ver to the ...
الصفحة 183
... hand to attempt to give the first blow to any man ; always receive the first ; and if you are able , let the aggreffor be ever great or mighty , beat him to your own heart's content : if you only lift your hand , and point and shake it ...
... hand to attempt to give the first blow to any man ; always receive the first ; and if you are able , let the aggreffor be ever great or mighty , beat him to your own heart's content : if you only lift your hand , and point and shake it ...
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