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 Edition |
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الصفحة 70
An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and furprize the manager when he leaft expected his ...
An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and furprize the manager when he leaft expected his ...
الصفحة 82
... find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted every bafe means to injure them , leaft they should fupplant him or get preferred ; but when he chanced to meet an infignificant puppy like himself , they agreed well together .
... find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted every bafe means to injure them , leaft they should fupplant him or get preferred ; but when he chanced to meet an infignificant puppy like himself , they agreed well together .
الصفحة 86
... nor fhould he be intrusted to difpofe of any of the eftate's produce , leaft he fhould be tempted to act difhoneftly . I knew many overseers who accumulated very rapidly large properties by retailing rum and ftock for the ufe of the ...
... nor fhould he be intrusted to difpofe of any of the eftate's produce , leaft he fhould be tempted to act difhoneftly . I knew many overseers who accumulated very rapidly large properties by retailing rum and ftock for the ufe of the ...
الصفحة 101
... and never to be fo weak or filly to think that all the law is contained in Burns Juftice , leaft he brings himself into trouble : Burns Juftice is only an index to part of the laws- " a little learning is a dangerous thing .
... and never to be fo weak or filly to think that all the law is contained in Burns Juftice , leaft he brings himself into trouble : Burns Juftice is only an index to part of the laws- " a little learning is a dangerous thing .
الصفحة 102
... he shot the nine lived animal as it ran out of his fowl - house ; so that magistrates fhould be exceeding cautious in their commitments , and of every kind of encroachment on the liberty of the fubject , leaft they pay dear for it .
... he shot the nine lived animal as it ran out of his fowl - house ; so that magistrates fhould be exceeding cautious in their commitments , and of every kind of encroachment on the liberty of the fubject , leaft they pay dear for it .
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