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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... business , as I obferved to you before ; indeed , if he has no letter nor friend , his own modeft behaviour and appear- ance will recommend him in the country , for overfeers are glad to get green - horns , because they can impofe ...
... business , as I obferved to you before ; indeed , if he has no letter nor friend , his own modeft behaviour and appear- ance will recommend him in the country , for overfeers are glad to get green - horns , because they can impofe ...
الصفحة 99
... business for himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrufted with the conducting of all the ...
... business for himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrufted with the conducting of all the ...
الصفحة 144
... business he is directed : it is bad for the mafter , because he has an unlimited power over his flave , and infenfibly forgets all moral virtues , and becomes cruel , fierce and voluptuous . Good God ! how cruel and depraved the heart ...
... business he is directed : it is bad for the mafter , because he has an unlimited power over his flave , and infenfibly forgets all moral virtues , and becomes cruel , fierce and voluptuous . Good God ! how cruel and depraved the heart ...
الصفحة 184
... business you enter into , you will in time attain a knowledge thereof ; which fhould be an ambition to you to arrive at perfection : -but remember that you muft break the fhell before you get at the kernel ; and by a modeft , refpectful ...
... business you enter into , you will in time attain a knowledge thereof ; which fhould be an ambition to you to arrive at perfection : -but remember that you muft break the fhell before you get at the kernel ; and by a modeft , refpectful ...
الصفحة 189
... business for yourself , be very particular who you credit , and get bonds or notes , as life is very precarious . 6 Do not be ready to contract debts more than you will be capable of difcharging pun & tually ; for by involving yourself ...
... business for yourself , be very particular who you credit , and get bonds or notes , as life is very precarious . 6 Do not be ready to contract debts more than you will be capable of difcharging pun & tually ; for by involving yourself ...
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