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 Edition |
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الصفحة 185
... yet you must strive to keep yourself neat and clean ; and be not mimically in or ridiculously out of the fashion ; have your apparel rather above than below your circumstances , and support your dignity according to the station you ...
... yet you must strive to keep yourself neat and clean ; and be not mimically in or ridiculously out of the fashion ; have your apparel rather above than below your circumstances , and support your dignity according to the station you ...
الصفحة 186
yourself ; and speak cautiously either in praise or dispraise of men . " When to the world you others faults make known , « Ingeniously reflect upon your own . ” And again : « Commend not , ' till a man is thoroughly known ; « A rascal ...
yourself ; and speak cautiously either in praise or dispraise of men . " When to the world you others faults make known , « Ingeniously reflect upon your own . ” And again : « Commend not , ' till a man is thoroughly known ; « A rascal ...
الصفحة 188
... treachery and deceit ; and be careful , if to make your own company agreeable to others , ( which you should endeavour to do ) not to en gross too much of the conversation to yourself ; you will please others by allowing them to ...
... treachery and deceit ; and be careful , if to make your own company agreeable to others , ( which you should endeavour to do ) not to en gross too much of the conversation to yourself ; you will please others by allowing them to ...
الصفحة 189
And when you transact business for yourself , be very particular who you - credit , and get bonds or notes , as life is ... for by involving yourself in debt , you leave both your liberty and property at the disposal of your creditors ...
And when you transact business for yourself , be very particular who you - credit , and get bonds or notes , as life is ... for by involving yourself in debt , you leave both your liberty and property at the disposal of your creditors ...
الصفحة 191
... it will answer the same , and you will thereby improve yourself : let the stile be plain and easy , free from affectation and ill - connected phrases ; when writing , always suppose the person present , as if you was speaking to him ...
... it will answer the same , and you will thereby improve yourself : let the stile be plain and easy , free from affectation and ill - connected phrases ; when writing , always suppose the person present , as if you was speaking to him ...
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