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 78
... few days and nights in diffipations dear delightful downy lap , whilft African manners and cuftoms are native and congenial to their hearts ! I fhould 1 > I should have observed to you before , that he 78 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... few days and nights in diffipations dear delightful downy lap , whilft African manners and cuftoms are native and congenial to their hearts ! I fhould 1 > I should have observed to you before , that he 78 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 81
... hearts become callous to all tender feelings - which foften and dignify our nature ; the most infignificant Connought favage bumpkin , or filly Highland gauky , will foon learn to flog without mercy to fhew his authority ; but when fuch ...
... hearts become callous to all tender feelings - which foften and dignify our nature ; the most infignificant Connought favage bumpkin , or filly Highland gauky , will foon learn to flog without mercy to fhew his authority ; but when fuch ...
الصفحة 87
... heart ; but how miferably was this lofty cowskin . hero fallen in two days afterwards , upon receiving a letter directing him to give up charge of the plantation to the bearer , and to quit it immediately . Now , the real fact was this ...
... heart ; but how miferably was this lofty cowskin . hero fallen in two days afterwards , upon receiving a letter directing him to give up charge of the plantation to the bearer , and to quit it immediately . Now , the real fact was this ...
الصفحة 94
... heart . It is good to have friends , and bad to be too troublesome to them , but worse to need their affiftance . The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ( called the fmall stock ) with ...
... heart . It is good to have friends , and bad to be too troublesome to them , but worse to need their affiftance . The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , fwine , and poultry ( called the fmall stock ) with ...
الصفحة 104
... heart . How odious muft men appear who are chosen out from among the reft to distribute juftice , when they are capable of corruption ? —and I am forry to be obliged to fay that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica ...
... heart . How odious muft men appear who are chosen out from among the reft to distribute juftice , when they are capable of corruption ? —and I am forry to be obliged to fay that there are too many of this kind , not only in Jamaica ...
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