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 105
... fond of coftly , tinfel frippery ; abroad they appear ridiculously gay , and at home flovenly and dirty ; and when deprived of the advantage of an European education , are affum . ing and prefuming , negroefied , aukward , igno- rant ...
... fond of coftly , tinfel frippery ; abroad they appear ridiculously gay , and at home flovenly and dirty ; and when deprived of the advantage of an European education , are affum . ing and prefuming , negroefied , aukward , igno- rant ...
الصفحة 107
... to complain of their husband's infidelity , which , I muft fay , is a great rarity , who behaved intolerable : one , in particular , was H 2 married married to a worthy gentleman who was doatingly fond of IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 107.
... to complain of their husband's infidelity , which , I muft fay , is a great rarity , who behaved intolerable : one , in particular , was H 2 married married to a worthy gentleman who was doatingly fond of IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 107.
الصفحة 108
J. B. Moreton. married to a worthy gentleman who was doatingly fond of her , by whom he had four or five prat- ling pledges of connubial blifs ; he had a plenti- ful fortune , and was diftinguifhed for hofpitality and generofity ; nor ...
J. B. Moreton. married to a worthy gentleman who was doatingly fond of her , by whom he had four or five prat- ling pledges of connubial blifs ; he had a plenti- ful fortune , and was diftinguifhed for hofpitality and generofity ; nor ...
الصفحة 112
... fond friends ; she will love a man dearly for making her a mo- ther , till which time the is a maid ; and the dear little pledge of their ftolen blifs will be tenderly nurfed ; but it commonly happens when they wish to conceal their ...
... fond friends ; she will love a man dearly for making her a mo- ther , till which time the is a maid ; and the dear little pledge of their ftolen blifs will be tenderly nurfed ; but it commonly happens when they wish to conceal their ...
الصفحة 113
... fond of their little flocks , and enjoy a pleafure in feed- ing them ; they call them by their different names , and know each feparately by particular marks or features ; even their chickens and duck- lings are named by them . I once ...
... fond of their little flocks , and enjoy a pleafure in feed- ing them ; they call them by their different names , and know each feparately by particular marks or features ; even their chickens and duck- lings are named by them . I once ...
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