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 97
... young man ; and , though quite the reverse , will get preferred . After he arrives to the dignified station of a cowskin hero , if he behaves ftri & tly honeft he ne- ver will arrive to any great degree of confequence . Though he will ...
... young man ; and , though quite the reverse , will get preferred . After he arrives to the dignified station of a cowskin hero , if he behaves ftri & tly honeft he ne- ver will arrive to any great degree of confequence . Though he will ...
الصفحة 99
... young man ferves a merchant three or four years fo as to gain his favour , he may get letters of credit , and be put into bufinefs for himself ; or if he be clever at bufinefs he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend ...
... young man ferves a merchant three or four years fo as to gain his favour , he may get letters of credit , and be put into bufinefs for himself ; or if he be clever at bufinefs he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend ...
الصفحة 100
... young man who is fent out super- cargo , if he conducts himself very prudently , may gain the good will of his friends , and they may fet him up in business ; I knew many fuper- pro- cargoes who were intrufted with confiderable perties ...
... young man who is fent out super- cargo , if he conducts himself very prudently , may gain the good will of his friends , and they may fet him up in business ; I knew many fuper- pro- cargoes who were intrufted with confiderable perties ...
الصفحة 104
... young 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 clouds , fcorning the base degrees By which he did ascend . " Those who are born in the ...
... young 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 clouds , fcorning the base degrees By which he did ascend . " Those who are born in the ...
الصفحة 108
... Young ladies who have been confined to the narrow limits of Jamaica from their infancy , are foft , innocent , ambitious , flirting play - things ; and in a more particular manner , those who are retired in the country ; when they drefs ...
... Young ladies who have been confined to the narrow limits of Jamaica from their infancy , are foft , innocent , ambitious , flirting play - things ; and in a more particular manner , those who are retired in the country ; when they drefs ...
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