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 53
... will answer very well ; the mixture always should be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be fit to distill in seven or eight days . As soon as the first charge is run off , the lees are ...
... will answer very well ; the mixture always should be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be fit to distill in seven or eight days . As soon as the first charge is run off , the lees are ...
الصفحة 59
... and grass against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet distance , as soon as the seasons set in the grass is taken and planted , six or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded .
... and grass against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet distance , as soon as the seasons set in the grass is taken and planted , six or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded .
الصفحة 81
... so that in time their hearts become callous to all tender feelings which soften and dignify our nature ; the most insignificant Connought savage bumpkin , or silly Highland gauky , will soon learn to flog without mercy to shew his ...
... so that in time their hearts become callous to all tender feelings which soften and dignify our nature ; the most insignificant Connought savage bumpkin , or silly Highland gauky , will soon learn to flog without mercy to shew his ...
الصفحة 85
... and fine clothes , and was soon honoured with the appellation of the beau planter ; in short , he was the prince and emperor of coxcombs , and was making a fortune rapidly , until an unlucky circumstance transpired , which blasted ...
... and fine clothes , and was soon honoured with the appellation of the beau planter ; in short , he was the prince and emperor of coxcombs , and was making a fortune rapidly , until an unlucky circumstance transpired , which blasted ...
الصفحة 88
Even creole children , as soon as they begin to lifp , are taught to tyrannize over their domestics ; thus , custom , the despotic ruler of reason , is dead to the voice of humanity , and smothers benevolence and charity .
Even creole children , as soon as they begin to lifp , are taught to tyrannize over their domestics ; thus , custom , the despotic ruler of reason , is dead to the voice of humanity , and smothers benevolence and charity .
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