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 99
... himself ; or if he be clever at bufinefs he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrusted with the conducting of all the business , and has ...
... himself ; or if he be clever at bufinefs he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrusted with the conducting of all the business , and has ...
الصفحة 100
... himself very prudently , may gain the good will of his friends , and they may fet him up in business ; I knew many fuper- pro- cargoes who were intrufted with confiderable perties forgot themselves and lived more extrava- gant than men ...
... himself very prudently , may gain the good will of his friends , and they may fet him up in business ; I knew many fuper- pro- cargoes who were intrufted with confiderable perties forgot themselves and lived more extrava- gant than men ...
الصفحة 101
... himself chofen one of the council or affiftant judges ; in order to accomplish which , he artfully infinuates himself into the favour of the commander in chief , or the prefident , by giving a few good dinners , & c . & c . When a man ...
... himself chofen one of the council or affiftant judges ; in order to accomplish which , he artfully infinuates himself into the favour of the commander in chief , or the prefident , by giving a few good dinners , & c . & c . When a man ...
الصفحة 102
... himself in private , to argue with fome degree of logic and graceful oratory ; not to follow the precepts of his caliloo , or pedling little minded brethren , when they meet in affembly , chattering of canes and corn pieces , of grafs ...
... himself in private , to argue with fome degree of logic and graceful oratory ; not to follow the precepts of his caliloo , or pedling little minded brethren , when they meet in affembly , chattering of canes and corn pieces , of grafs ...
الصفحة 105
... himself , They are very fond of all kinds of sweetmeats and sweet liquors : cool drink or * mauby is a delicious nectar to them in the morning : -I often laughed heartily at hearing a Creole mafter or mifs fay , " Do , momma , get me ...
... himself , They are very fond of all kinds of sweetmeats and sweet liquors : cool drink or * mauby is a delicious nectar to them in the morning : -I often laughed heartily at hearing a Creole mafter or mifs fay , " Do , momma , get me ...
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