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 reverfe , will get preferred . After he arrives to the dignified station of a cowskin hero , if he behaves ftrictly honeft he ne- ver will arrive to any great degree of confequence . Though he will be ...
... young man ; and , though quite the reverfe , will get preferred . After he arrives to the dignified station of a cowskin hero , if he behaves ftrictly honeft he ne- ver will arrive to any great degree of confequence . Though he will be ...
الصفحة 99
... young man serves a merchant three or four years so as to gain his favour , he may get letters of credit , and be put into business for himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend ...
... young man serves a merchant three or four years so as to gain his favour , he may get letters of credit , and be put into business for himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend ...
الصفحة 100
... young man who is fent out fuper- cargo , if he conducts himfelf very prudently , may gain the good will of his friends , and they may fet him up in bufinefs ; I knew many fuper- cargoes who were intrufted with confiderable pro- perties ...
... young man who is fent out fuper- cargo , if he conducts himfelf very prudently , may gain the good will of his friends , and they may fet him up in bufinefs ; I knew many fuper- cargoes who were intrufted with confiderable pro- perties ...
الصفحة 104
... young ambition's ladder , 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 bafe degrees By which he did afcend . " Those ...
... young ambition's ladder , 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 bafe degrees By which he did afcend . " Those ...
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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