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 100
J. B. Moreton. perfon may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a ftore and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commiffion on all goods he dif poses of is fure and fafe profit , and in time he may make fome money ...
J. B. Moreton. perfon may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a ftore and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commiffion on all goods he dif poses of is fure and fafe profit , and in time he may make fome money ...
الصفحة 101
... favour of the few freeholders of the parish wherein his involved or mortgaged property lies , and gets chofen a reprefentative of the affembly : I have known the most illiterate , rude , aukward tradef- men , fuch as carpenters ...
... favour of the few freeholders of the parish wherein his involved or mortgaged property lies , and gets chofen a reprefentative of the affembly : I have known the most illiterate , rude , aukward tradef- men , fuch as carpenters ...
الصفحة 103
... favour or affection , hatred or malice , or having regard to any person whatsoever that hath any matter , caufe or any thing at any time depending before you . So help you GOD . This may prevent you from cenfure before God and man ; for ...
... favour or affection , hatred or malice , or having regard to any person whatsoever that hath any matter , caufe or any thing at any time depending before you . So help you GOD . This may prevent you from cenfure before God and man ; for ...
الصفحة 119
... favour- ed . In answer thereto , I only write to you as a friend ; and was you now in Jamaica , you might never find out the families I allude to , for I have concealed their names and places of abode : and I fill I ftill regard the ...
... favour- ed . In answer thereto , I only write to you as a friend ; and was you now in Jamaica , you might never find out the families I allude to , for I have concealed their names and places of abode : and I fill I ftill regard the ...
الصفحة 122
... favour with the fair , never contradict them , but coincide with them in their impertinences and little abfurdities ; for flattery in difguife , artfully difplayed , is an effential in- gredient ; and though you be ever so seriously ...
... favour with the fair , never contradict them , but coincide with them in their impertinences and little abfurdities ; for flattery in difguife , artfully difplayed , is an effential in- gredient ; and though you be ever so seriously ...
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