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 106
... ; if talents of this kind could make vo- latile flighty men fedate and folid , no doubt but they would all act and behave like other men ; hence , hence I must conclude that their uncommon le- vity is 106 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... ; if talents of this kind could make vo- latile flighty men fedate and folid , no doubt but they would all act and behave like other men ; hence , hence I must conclude that their uncommon le- vity is 106 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 107
J. B. Moreton. hence I must conclude that their uncommon le- vity is certainly owing to the climate , which has a wonderful influence on the brains and hearts of even Europeans . Creoles are witty at times , and numbers can speak and ...
J. B. Moreton. hence I must conclude that their uncommon le- vity is certainly owing to the climate , which has a wonderful influence on the brains and hearts of even Europeans . Creoles are witty at times , and numbers can speak and ...
الصفحة 112
... must have superb houses and grand retinues in town , far beyond their abi- lities ; and there again their restless paffions are at war : Mifs Jenny : Gauva , nor mafter Billy Pompion , cannot endure the fultry heat of the climate , nor ...
... must have superb houses and grand retinues in town , far beyond their abi- lities ; and there again their restless paffions are at war : Mifs Jenny : Gauva , nor mafter Billy Pompion , cannot endure the fultry heat of the climate , nor ...
الصفحة 113
... must give them fome credit for their induftry ; they are fond of their little flocks , and enjoy a pleafure in feed- ing them ; they call them by their different names , and know each feparately by particular marks or features ; even ...
... must give them fome credit for their induftry ; they are fond of their little flocks , and enjoy a pleafure in feed- ing them ; they call them by their different names , and know each feparately by particular marks or features ; even ...
الصفحة 122
... must practice ; and al- ways have at command a few nice little humorous wrapped up anecdotes , & c . It is a general rule all over the world , amongst the lovely fex , from the cinderbritch to the dutchefs , that flattery , and trifling ...
... must practice ; and al- ways have at command a few nice little humorous wrapped up anecdotes , & c . It is a general rule all over the world , amongst the lovely fex , from the cinderbritch to the dutchefs , that flattery , and trifling ...
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