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 101
... most illiterate , rude , aukward tradef- men , fuch as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , fhavers or barbers , legiflators in the West Indies . The next manovre is to get himself chofen one of the council or ...
... most illiterate , rude , aukward tradef- men , fuch as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , fhavers or barbers , legiflators in the West Indies . The next manovre is to get himself chofen one of the council or ...
الصفحة 104
... most pointedly , But it is a common proof , " That lowlinefs is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the ...
... most pointedly , But it is a common proof , " That lowlinefs is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the ...
الصفحة 118
... most charming catches , which infpired me with ideas different from what I before entertained ; on our return through a plantain walk , we went intentionally astray . " I long " I long to tafte beneath fome plantain's fhade , 118 ...
... most charming catches , which infpired me with ideas different from what I before entertained ; on our return through a plantain walk , we went intentionally astray . " I long " I long to tafte beneath fome plantain's fhade , 118 ...
الصفحة 124
... most thieving pilfering vagrants ; for never having practifed any industry , but beggared themselves by their profligacy and diffipation , Creole fashion , they are quite ignorant ever after of the ways and means to earn their ...
... most thieving pilfering vagrants ; for never having practifed any industry , but beggared themselves by their profligacy and diffipation , Creole fashion , they are quite ignorant ever after of the ways and means to earn their ...
الصفحة 129
... most honourable gentlemen into love ; and when the ball or rigadoon is over , efcort her to your house or lodging , and taste all the wanton and warm endearments fhe can yield before morn- ing . Here I must give you fome neceffary ...
... most honourable gentlemen into love ; and when the ball or rigadoon is over , efcort her to your house or lodging , and taste all the wanton and warm endearments fhe can yield before morn- ing . Here I must give you fome neceffary ...
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