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 116
... gentlemen croud- ed , and the tables were quickly overspread with an amazing number of dishes , five times more than ever I have feen at an Irish wedding . Presently mifs Louifa and mifs Laura ( as I fhall call them ) made their ...
... gentlemen croud- ed , and the tables were quickly overspread with an amazing number of dishes , five times more than ever I have feen at an Irish wedding . Presently mifs Louifa and mifs Laura ( as I fhall call them ) made their ...
الصفحة 117
... gentlemen to smile , and the young ladies to laugh heartily ; but this harmless mistake and piece of innocent mirth had like to terminate very feri- ously , oufly , for captain M Kill - all ( which IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS , 117.
... gentlemen to smile , and the young ladies to laugh heartily ; but this harmless mistake and piece of innocent mirth had like to terminate very feri- ously , oufly , for captain M Kill - all ( which IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS , 117.
الصفحة 118
... gentlemen with courage to take the liberty of ravishing her daughters of fome fweet kiffes . After the gentlemen were all departed , mifs Louifa and mifs Laura took off their ftays , and put on their romping frocks , and afked me to ...
... gentlemen with courage to take the liberty of ravishing her daughters of fome fweet kiffes . After the gentlemen were all departed , mifs Louifa and mifs Laura took off their ftays , and put on their romping frocks , and afked me to ...
الصفحة 124
... gentleman wifhed his Mongrel fon to do well , he fhould do nothing more for him than to give him a fmattering of reading , writing and arithmetic , to procure his freedom , and bind him at an early age to a trade , during which time to ...
... gentleman wifhed his Mongrel fon to do well , he fhould do nothing more for him than to give him a fmattering of reading , writing and arithmetic , to procure his freedom , and bind him at an early age to a trade , during which time to ...
الصفحة 128
... gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and clerks , & c . frequent fuch affem- blies , and promifcuously meet and joftle each other : I have spent many merry nights at fuch balls . When you are fometime in the ...
... gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and clerks , & c . frequent fuch affem- blies , and promifcuously meet and joftle each other : I have spent many merry nights at fuch balls . When you are fometime in the ...
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