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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... perfon knows the ignorance of him who should direct and give inftructions to carry on bufinefs like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himfelf entitled to reft and refreshment ; and ...
... perfon knows the ignorance of him who should direct and give inftructions to carry on bufinefs like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himfelf entitled to reft and refreshment ; and ...
الصفحة 54
... perfon fhould be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore obferve , that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy fkimmings have been fet , or when any charge does not yield a proper quantity of ...
... perfon fhould be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore obferve , that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy fkimmings have been fet , or when any charge does not yield a proper quantity of ...
الصفحة 61
... perfon by himself , and thereby de- coying about fifteen hundred overfeers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manœuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his com- bination ...
... perfon by himself , and thereby de- coying about fifteen hundred overfeers , clerks , and book - keepers , to enter as volunteers ; his mean manœuvre , after he had collected them all together , in remaining behind ; his com- bination ...
الصفحة 63
... perfon in the space of three months , by rendering all his property to his creditors , may get from prifon ; in every parish there is a deputy provost marshal , each of whom make pretty livings : I fuppofe the place of the marshal of ...
... perfon in the space of three months , by rendering all his property to his creditors , may get from prifon ; in every parish there is a deputy provost marshal , each of whom make pretty livings : I fuppofe the place of the marshal of ...
الصفحة 80
... perfon , and it will be a vain attempt indeed for him to perfevere in the planting line afterwards . The bufinefs on a plantation is no way intri- cate ; there are thoufands of circumftances which appearances only can teach ; an ...
... perfon , and it will be a vain attempt indeed for him to perfevere in the planting line afterwards . The bufinefs on a plantation is no way intri- cate ; there are thoufands of circumftances which appearances only can teach ; an ...
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