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 81
... minds are impreffed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with ftrange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , fo that in time their hearts become callous to all tender feelings which foften and dignify our nature ; the most ...
... minds are impreffed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with ftrange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks , fo that in time their hearts become callous to all tender feelings which foften and dignify our nature ; the most ...
الصفحة 87
... mind very tamely addreffed the overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftri- ous ; you certainly have uncommon abilities , and will make a fine crop of corn to pamper your horfes , fwine , and ...
... mind very tamely addreffed the overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftri- ous ; you certainly have uncommon abilities , and will make a fine crop of corn to pamper your horfes , fwine , and ...
الصفحة 89
... mind least something is neglected , or he may be furprized by the attorney . re- And if men , whofe bread depend on planter- ship , enter into the connubial bond , it will injure them , because it is not pleafing to gentlemen to have ...
... mind least something is neglected , or he may be furprized by the attorney . re- And if men , whofe bread depend on planter- ship , enter into the connubial bond , it will injure them , because it is not pleafing to gentlemen to have ...
الصفحة 91
... minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delufive dreams , fo that every ad- venturer is buoyed up with the chimerical notion of acquiring abundance of wealth without much difficulty , but not one in forty fucceeds ; and even those ...
... minds are fed and inflamed by fickly Hope's delufive dreams , fo that every ad- venturer is buoyed up with the chimerical notion of acquiring abundance of wealth without much difficulty , but not one in forty fucceeds ; and even those ...
الصفحة 104
... mind close to yourself , you never will be a great man : Shakespeare fays most pointedly , But it is a common proof , ambition's ladder , " That lowlinefs is young Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the ...
... mind close to yourself , you never will be a great man : Shakespeare fays most pointedly , But it is a common proof , ambition's ladder , " That lowlinefs is young Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the ...
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