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 93
... mean where the attorney , without favour or affection , makes it an established rule to prefer the oldest book - keepers in rotation , he should ftrive to please the overfeer , and remain in it as long as poffible ; if he continues ...
... mean where the attorney , without favour or affection , makes it an established rule to prefer the oldest book - keepers in rotation , he should ftrive to please the overfeer , and remain in it as long as poffible ; if he continues ...
الصفحة 99
... means by which clerks afcend . If a poor young man ferves a merchant three or four years fo as to gain his favour , he may get letters of credit , and be put into bufinefs for himself ; or if he be clever at bufinefs he may be taken ...
... means by which clerks afcend . If a poor young man ferves a merchant three or four years fo as to gain his favour , he may get letters of credit , and be put into bufinefs for himself ; or if he be clever at bufinefs he may be taken ...
الصفحة 109
... means to get to men , -their eyes , their looks , and fondling actions , all betray wan- tonnefs and love : their little hearts are a fort of tinder , that catch fire from every Spark who flat- ters their vanity , and whispers them foft ...
... means to get to men , -their eyes , their looks , and fondling actions , all betray wan- tonnefs and love : their little hearts are a fort of tinder , that catch fire from every Spark who flat- ters their vanity , and whispers them foft ...
الصفحة 124
... means to earn their livelihoods industriously and honeftly . If a gentleman wifhed his Mongrel fon to do well , he should do nothing more for him than to give him a smattering of reading , writing and arithmetic , to procure his freedom ...
... means to earn their livelihoods industriously and honeftly . If a gentleman wifhed his Mongrel fon to do well , he should do nothing more for him than to give him a smattering of reading , writing and arithmetic , to procure his freedom ...
الصفحة 126
... means to draw young men to their rookeries , in order to profti- tute their daughters ; I have been often compel- led by the mother to fpend a whole night with her her gingerbread daughter . - Those gypfies have a wonderful 126 MANNERS ...
... means to draw young men to their rookeries , in order to profti- tute their daughters ; I have been often compel- led by the mother to fpend a whole night with her her gingerbread daughter . - Those gypfies have a wonderful 126 MANNERS ...
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