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 157
... almost impoffible for a ftoic to look on without laughing . The droll capers , and wanton gef- tures and attitudes - the languishing glances and grimaces , fo confequential and ferious , of those flat - nofed damfels , timed to ...
... almost impoffible for a ftoic to look on without laughing . The droll capers , and wanton gef- tures and attitudes - the languishing glances and grimaces , fo confequential and ferious , of those flat - nofed damfels , timed to ...
الصفحة 179
... almost every company , expofe their ignorance and fhew their pedantry , by boafting of their great connections , courage and gallantry : even those who may not have a grain of merit in their grofs compofi- tions . " I have the Kings ...
... almost every company , expofe their ignorance and fhew their pedantry , by boafting of their great connections , courage and gallantry : even those who may not have a grain of merit in their grofs compofi- tions . " I have the Kings ...
الصفحة 182
... almost every fuch brat , Wears a cockade and epaulet ; With fearlet coat , fword and rattan , Lord ! what a pretty gentleman ! As dunghills made of dirt and faggots Breed a fort of filthy maggots ; When naked - hateful to our eyes ...
... almost every fuch brat , Wears a cockade and epaulet ; With fearlet coat , fword and rattan , Lord ! what a pretty gentleman ! As dunghills made of dirt and faggots Breed a fort of filthy maggots ; When naked - hateful to our eyes ...
الصفحة 187
... men are known by their company . However , in almost every country you will fee fome good men ; the friend Ship of fuch only is worth cultivating . I wi N 2 you you may have merit to gain friends , and pru- IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 187.
... men are known by their company . However , in almost every country you will fee fome good men ; the friend Ship of fuch only is worth cultivating . I wi N 2 you you may have merit to gain friends , and pru- IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 187.
الصفحة 188
... almost every sentence you utter , for they are all fure figns of ill breeding , trea- chery and deceit ; and be careful , if you wish to make your own company agreeable to others , ( which you fhould endeavour to do ) not to en- grofs ...
... almost every sentence you utter , for they are all fure figns of ill breeding , trea- chery and deceit ; and be careful , if you wish to make your own company agreeable to others , ( which you fhould endeavour to do ) not to en- grofs ...
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