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 160
... such I have known to be indulged in the filken pavilions of eafe and luxuriousness ; " clothed in purple and fine linen , and fared fumptuously every day , " whilft their relations and and fhip - mates , hungry and naked , groaned 160 ...
... such I have known to be indulged in the filken pavilions of eafe and luxuriousness ; " clothed in purple and fine linen , and fared fumptuously every day , " whilft their relations and and fhip - mates , hungry and naked , groaned 160 ...
الصفحة 177
... such hypocritical villians . In those days it requires time and penetration to distinguish a gambler or fharper from a gen- tleman ; where you find a man who has no estate or property nor profeffion whereby he may earn a livelihood ...
... such hypocritical villians . In those days it requires time and penetration to distinguish a gambler or fharper from a gen- tleman ; where you find a man who has no estate or property nor profeffion whereby he may earn a livelihood ...
الصفحة 181
... Such men there are , but rare to meet ; Yet numbers are , I'll teftify , Of diff'rent ftamp in crimson dye ; The first of which mighty claffes , Are vain , proud , imperious affes ; Blustering ~ Bluftering bucks over - bearing , Haughty ...
... Such men there are , but rare to meet ; Yet numbers are , I'll teftify , Of diff'rent ftamp in crimson dye ; The first of which mighty claffes , Are vain , proud , imperious affes ; Blustering ~ Bluftering bucks over - bearing , Haughty ...
الصفحة 182
... Such dunghill vermin , meanly born , Vile objects of contempt and scorn , Are nothing better at the best , Than catterpillers nicely dreft ; Like catterpillers , too , I think , Thofe fervile bufkind - ranters ftink . Never , • fo Never ...
... Such dunghill vermin , meanly born , Vile objects of contempt and scorn , Are nothing better at the best , Than catterpillers nicely dreft ; Like catterpillers , too , I think , Thofe fervile bufkind - ranters ftink . Never , • fo Never ...
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