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 122
... hearts . " Or wou'd you the frowns of a lady prevent , " She too has this palpable failing ; " The perquifite foftens her intò confent ; " That reafon with all is prevailing . " Having 1 H Having thus far endeavoured to give you fome ...
... hearts . " Or wou'd you the frowns of a lady prevent , " She too has this palpable failing ; " The perquifite foftens her intò confent ; " That reafon with all is prevailing . " Having 1 H Having thus far endeavoured to give you fome ...
الصفحة 127
... - gems which her malicious heart could devife against me ; by which means my employer treated me fo ill , that I was obliged to discharge myself . I 4 It It was then I refolv'd evermore to beware Of provoking IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
... - gems which her malicious heart could devife against me ; by which means my employer treated me fo ill , that I was obliged to discharge myself . I 4 It It was then I refolv'd evermore to beware Of provoking IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
الصفحة 132
... heart , neither let her take thee with her eye - lids . Can a man take fire in his bofom , and his clothes not be burned ? -Can one go upon her coals , and his feet not be burned ? -For a whore is a deep ditch , and a strange woman is a ...
... heart , neither let her take thee with her eye - lids . Can a man take fire in his bofom , and his clothes not be burned ? -Can one go upon her coals , and his feet not be burned ? -For a whore is a deep ditch , and a strange woman is a ...
الصفحة 144
... heart of man ! I have known clergymen , on the most frivolous occafions , to order their flaves to be flogged and tortured , contrary to all the texts in the gofpel ; and to fit in their piazza's looking on , finging and laughing at the ...
... heart of man ! I have known clergymen , on the most frivolous occafions , to order their flaves to be flogged and tortured , contrary to all the texts in the gofpel ; and to fit in their piazza's looking on , finging and laughing at the ...
الصفحة 145
... heart broken at their fate , die daily ; and leaft any report fhould circulate of the cargo's being fickly , to hurt the fale , the dead bodies are concealed in the hold until night , and given to the fharks , which devour them in a ...
... heart broken at their fate , die daily ; and leaft any report fhould circulate of the cargo's being fickly , to hurt the fale , the dead bodies are concealed in the hold until night , and given to the fharks , which devour them in a ...
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