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 171
... himself un- wieldy or affecting his head , would be fuffi- cient nourishment . The Epicurean's fole de- light is pampering his nafty carcafe ; his belly is his god ; to gratify the infatiable cravings of which , he facrifices all the ...
... himself un- wieldy or affecting his head , would be fuffi- cient nourishment . The Epicurean's fole de- light is pampering his nafty carcafe ; his belly is his god ; to gratify the infatiable cravings of which , he facrifices all the ...
الصفحة 174
... himself in a house or piazza , or writing in an office , fhould not , by any means , accuftom himself to drink any thing ftronger than water before dinner ; nor fhould fuch a perfon tipple at grog , or other liquors , in the evening or ...
... himself in a house or piazza , or writing in an office , fhould not , by any means , accuftom himself to drink any thing ftronger than water before dinner ; nor fhould fuch a perfon tipple at grog , or other liquors , in the evening or ...
الصفحة 175
... himself or friends , but violates three or four of God's commandments . A man who has been fuccessful a few times at a hazard - table , cannot eafily relinquish gambling ; M 4 " It " It grows with his growth , and ftrengthens with IN ...
... himself or friends , but violates three or four of God's commandments . A man who has been fuccessful a few times at a hazard - table , cannot eafily relinquish gambling ; M 4 " It " It grows with his growth , and ftrengthens with IN ...
الصفحة 178
... himself of all honour , and levels with the vileft fwinge buckler ; there the Chrift - murdering Shylock has as much influence as the brave general or valiant admiral . Officers of the army are , to their disgrace , fond of gambling ...
... himself of all honour , and levels with the vileft fwinge buckler ; there the Chrift - murdering Shylock has as much influence as the brave general or valiant admiral . Officers of the army are , to their disgrace , fond of gambling ...
الصفحة 179
... himself as an ape or a wild goofe . You must know that I have always been averfe to duelling and duellers ; it is to be lamented , if nothing but death will protect good peace- able men from infults , in my opinion the prac- tice is not ...
... himself as an ape or a wild goofe . You must know that I have always been averfe to duelling and duellers ; it is to be lamented , if nothing but death will protect good peace- able men from infults , in my opinion the prac- tice is not ...
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