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 119
... pleafing days , I gaily fpent once in Jamaica dear ! Sweet fertile ifle , where genial friendly rays , And verdure crown eternally the year ! Deareft favourite of the torrid zone , Whom nature , bounteous , sheds her bleffings o'er ...
... pleafing days , I gaily fpent once in Jamaica dear ! Sweet fertile ifle , where genial friendly rays , And verdure crown eternally the year ! Deareft favourite of the torrid zone , Whom nature , bounteous , sheds her bleffings o'er ...
الصفحة 158
... In melting pairs , they privately retire To lonely fhades , to fences or old walls , To dance more pleafing jigs than at their balls : Whilft Whilft others flily to their huts advance , And twin'd 158 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... In melting pairs , they privately retire To lonely fhades , to fences or old walls , To dance more pleafing jigs than at their balls : Whilft Whilft others flily to their huts advance , And twin'd 158 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 174
... pleafing fatisfaction , attentive to his bufinefs , and fo purfues a regular courfe of life . o'clock , with a head All over the West - Indies , gambling is prac- ticed to a great and ridiculous extreme , and that too on Sabbath's : in ...
... pleafing fatisfaction , attentive to his bufinefs , and fo purfues a regular courfe of life . o'clock , with a head All over the West - Indies , gambling is prac- ticed to a great and ridiculous extreme , and that too on Sabbath's : in ...
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