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 64
... they all in general live elegantly ; it is not thought ftrange for a peafant's fon from Glasgow , or Aberdeen , in the space of four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty independence ...
... they all in general live elegantly ; it is not thought ftrange for a peafant's fon from Glasgow , or Aberdeen , in the space of four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty independence ...
الصفحة 66
... fo that in a very few years the pooreft wandering Jerufalemite will accumulate wealth ; they all live miferably mean upon planting , and some trash of damaged herrings , and other faltfish , until they get independent in the world .
... fo that in a very few years the pooreft wandering Jerufalemite will accumulate wealth ; they all live miferably mean upon planting , and some trash of damaged herrings , and other faltfish , until they get independent in the world .
الصفحة 79
... fo that as to eating and drinking , overfeers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mefs together ; nor is there fuch distinction obferved among them as in the West India Islands . The meanest clafs of adventurers fucceed ...
... fo that as to eating and drinking , overfeers and book - keepers live very well ; they all mefs together ; nor is there fuch distinction obferved among them as in the West India Islands . The meanest clafs of adventurers fucceed ...
الصفحة 90
... Or at home I ftrut and ftride , A famous cowfkin hero ! My book - keepers I humble , Humble as the canine race ; When they attempt to grumble , I furely kick them out of place . Thus live in cafe , with health and gain , Whilft they ...
... Or at home I ftrut and ftride , A famous cowfkin hero ! My book - keepers I humble , Humble as the canine race ; When they attempt to grumble , I furely kick them out of place . Thus live in cafe , with health and gain , Whilft they ...
الصفحة 112
... they cannot bear to live peaceably and quiet on their plantations - no , they must have superb houses and grand retinues in town , far beyond their abilities ; and there again their reftless passions are at war : Mifs Jenny : Gauva ...
... they cannot bear to live peaceably and quiet on their plantations - no , they must have superb houses and grand retinues in town , far beyond their abilities ; and there again their reftless passions are at war : Mifs Jenny : Gauva ...
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