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 24
... Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
... Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
الصفحة 25
... should have a ftool once or twice daily . When your pulfe beat strong and faft , like the ticking of a watch ; when you feel a beating or reeling in your head ; a weaknefs in your eyes ; pains in your neck , back , fhoulders , or knees ...
... should have a ftool once or twice daily . When your pulfe beat strong and faft , like the ticking of a watch ; when you feel a beating or reeling in your head ; a weaknefs in your eyes ; pains in your neck , back , fhoulders , or knees ...
الصفحة 32
... should think myfelf intitled to the honorable appellation of a quack ! I shall now proceed to give you a fhort difcription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . " Curft be the lines , how ...
... should think myfelf intitled to the honorable appellation of a quack ! I shall now proceed to give you a fhort difcription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . " Curft be the lines , how ...
الصفحة 50
... should direct and give inftructions to carry on business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to rest and refreshment ; and very juftly he is , to as much or ...
... should direct and give inftructions to carry on business like clock - work , he will take advantages ; and knowing his own abilities and value , thinks himself entitled to rest and refreshment ; and very juftly he is , to as much or ...
الصفحة 54
... should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe , that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy skimmings have been fet , or when any charge does not yield a proper quantity of low wines ...
... should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe , that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy skimmings have been fet , or when any charge does not yield a proper quantity of low wines ...
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