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 24
... never were tutored in the schools of humanity . Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impend- ing shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours ...
... never were tutored in the schools of humanity . Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impend- ing shower , haften to your home , or to some hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours ...
الصفحة 25
... Never drink cold water when you find yourself in a heat : warm beverage , weak punch , or fangre , is beft , and will cool you ; and if fuch cannot be had , refrain from drink till you are cool . Be always guarded in your manner of ...
... Never drink cold water when you find yourself in a heat : warm beverage , weak punch , or fangre , is beft , and will cool you ; and if fuch cannot be had , refrain from drink till you are cool . Be always guarded in your manner of ...
الصفحة 28
... never will bear ferious reflection without fome poignacy at heart ; as a man cannot put his finger into the fire with- out fcorching it , fo he cannot have connections with lewd women , and efcape diseases . Venereals are diforders of ...
... never will bear ferious reflection without fome poignacy at heart ; as a man cannot put his finger into the fire with- out fcorching it , fo he cannot have connections with lewd women , and efcape diseases . Venereals are diforders of ...
الصفحة 32
... never fhall , I should think myfelf intitled to the honorable appellation of a quack ! I fhall now proceed to give you a fhort dif- cription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . " Curst be ...
... never fhall , I should think myfelf intitled to the honorable appellation of a quack ! I fhall now proceed to give you a fhort dif- cription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . " Curst be ...
الصفحة 43
... never come to perfection , but would parch with drought . Suppose a hill of a conical form , the liners begin at the top and line it in a circular manner till they get to the bafe : a planter who has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a ...
... never come to perfection , but would parch with drought . Suppose a hill of a conical form , the liners begin at the top and line it in a circular manner till they get to the bafe : a planter who has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a ...
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