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 167
... ignorant , idle men , often unite with the number of Bacchus's fwine ; and yet , I knew many young men of bright abilities , who drowned their noble faculties almoft nightly in bowls of in- fanity , or drowsy oblivion . Grog drinking ...
... ignorant , idle men , often unite with the number of Bacchus's fwine ; and yet , I knew many young men of bright abilities , who drowned their noble faculties almoft nightly in bowls of in- fanity , or drowsy oblivion . Grog drinking ...
الصفحة 177
... ignorant of their intent , for they commonly get perquifites for their fecrefy and activity . But when sharpers are numerous they form themselves into different parties , and have pri- vate fignals ; thefe honourable gentry promifcu ...
... ignorant of their intent , for they commonly get perquifites for their fecrefy and activity . But when sharpers are numerous they form themselves into different parties , and have pri- vate fignals ; thefe honourable gentry promifcu ...
الصفحة 179
... ignorance and fhew their pedantry , by boafting of their great connections , courage and gallantry : even those who ... ignorant , affrontful , litigi- ous brat , who knows almost as little of what he fain would arrogate to himfelf as ...
... ignorance and fhew their pedantry , by boafting of their great connections , courage and gallantry : even those who ... ignorant , affrontful , litigi- ous brat , who knows almost as little of what he fain would arrogate to himfelf as ...
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