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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... himself equal to any man whatsoever . " It is not eftates or titles that makes one man better than another ; men only excell in fouls and fen- timents . When judges or magiftrates fhew fa- vour or affection , hatred or malice , to any ...
... himself equal to any man whatsoever . " It is not eftates or titles that makes one man better than another ; men only excell in fouls and fen- timents . When judges or magiftrates fhew fa- vour or affection , hatred or malice , to any ...
الصفحة 105
... himself , They are very fond of all kinds of sweetmeats and fweet liquors : cool drink or * mauby is a delicious nectar to them in the morning : -I often laughed heartily at hearing a Creole master or miss fay , " Do , momma , get me ...
... himself , They are very fond of all kinds of sweetmeats and fweet liquors : cool drink or * mauby is a delicious nectar to them in the morning : -I often laughed heartily at hearing a Creole master or miss fay , " Do , momma , get me ...
الصفحة 111
... himself difagree- ably circumstanced in various refpects ; for it will not be his wife and little progeny alone he will have to provide for , but all the poor brothers and fifters , uncles and aunts , coufins and half- coufins of his ...
... himself difagree- ably circumstanced in various refpects ; for it will not be his wife and little progeny alone he will have to provide for , but all the poor brothers and fifters , uncles and aunts , coufins and half- coufins of his ...
الصفحة 149
... himself ? What a brave general , or valiant admiral , might that man have made , had his in- tellects been properly cultivated from his youth , and trained to the army or navy ? " Full many a gem of pureft ray ferene , " The dark ...
... himself ? What a brave general , or valiant admiral , might that man have made , had his in- tellects been properly cultivated from his youth , and trained to the army or navy ? " Full many a gem of pureft ray ferene , " The dark ...
الصفحة 167
... himself . It is wonderful , indeed , what strange and un- accountable notions actuate the minds of men to be hard drinkers ; those who have not suf- ficient fortitude to bear patiently the difpenfa- tions of all - wife Providence , lull ...
... himself . It is wonderful , indeed , what strange and un- accountable notions actuate the minds of men to be hard drinkers ; those who have not suf- ficient fortitude to bear patiently the difpenfa- tions of all - wife Providence , lull ...
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