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 105
... hearts and fortunes feldom agree ; for they are extremely extravagant , and know not the va- lue of money or effects till they want them . They are amazing fond of coftly , tinfel frippery ; abroad they appear ridiculously gay , and at ...
... hearts and fortunes feldom agree ; for they are extremely extravagant , and know not the va- lue of money or effects till they want them . They are amazing fond of coftly , tinfel frippery ; abroad they appear ridiculously gay , and at ...
الصفحة 107
... hearts of even Europeans . Creoles are witty at times , and numbers can speak and write fenfibly though they act inconfiftant and foolishly ; which confirms what Dryden says : " Great wits to madness fure are near ally'd , " And thin ...
... hearts of even Europeans . Creoles are witty at times , and numbers can speak and write fenfibly though they act inconfiftant and foolishly ; which confirms what Dryden says : " Great wits to madness fure are near ally'd , " And thin ...
الصفحة 109
... hearts are a fort of tinder , that catch fire from every Spark who flat- ters their vanity , and whispers them foft non- fenfe they are pliable as wax , and melt like butter ; and though naturally delicate in their texture , H 3 1 ...
... hearts are a fort of tinder , that catch fire from every Spark who flat- ters their vanity , and whispers them foft non- fenfe they are pliable as wax , and melt like butter ; and though naturally delicate in their texture , H 3 1 ...
الصفحة 119
... heart forget the pleafing days , I gaily spent once in Jamaica dear ! Sweet fertile ifle , where genial friendly rays , And verdure crown eternally the year ! Dearest favourite of the torrid zone , Whom nature , bounteous , sheds her ...
... heart forget the pleafing days , I gaily spent once in Jamaica dear ! Sweet fertile ifle , where genial friendly rays , And verdure crown eternally the year ! Dearest favourite of the torrid zone , Whom nature , bounteous , sheds her ...
الصفحة 120
... and weakness , & c . he would be cool as ice to the ogling incitations of jilting coquets , and the vile allurements of dif tempered tempered harlots , who with fictitious fmiles and aching hearts 120 ANNERS AND CUSTOMS MAN ...
... and weakness , & c . he would be cool as ice to the ogling incitations of jilting coquets , and the vile allurements of dif tempered tempered harlots , who with fictitious fmiles and aching hearts 120 ANNERS AND CUSTOMS MAN ...
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