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 98
... himself clear of debt ; clerks drefs more fashionable and gay than overfeers or book - keepers , and shift once or twice daily . Board and lodging in a creditable house will coft about 801. fterling : and as conftant washing , and the ...
... himself clear of debt ; clerks drefs more fashionable and gay than overfeers or book - keepers , and shift once or twice daily . Board and lodging in a creditable house will coft about 801. fterling : and as conftant washing , and the ...
الصفحة 99
... himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor ... himself into credit , get bargains at vendue , keep a favourite wench , and make her retail them at cent . per cent ...
... himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor ... himself into credit , get bargains at vendue , keep a favourite wench , and make her retail them at cent . per cent ...
الصفحة 100
J. B. Moreton. perfon may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a ftore and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commiffion on all goods he dif poses of is fure and fafe profit , and in time he may make fome money ...
J. B. Moreton. perfon may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a ftore and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commiffion on all goods he dif poses of is fure and fafe profit , and in time he may make fome money ...
الصفحة 101
... himself in fome public character , untill he is elevated , ftep after ftep , as I fhall now mention ; the firft honour conferred upon him is that of a juftice of the peace ; next he infinuates himself into the favour of the few ...
... himself in fome public character , untill he is elevated , ftep after ftep , as I fhall now mention ; the firft honour conferred upon him is that of a juftice of the peace ; next he infinuates himself into the favour of the few ...
الصفحة 102
... himself in private , to argue with fome degree of logic and graceful oratory ; not to follow the precepts of his caliloo , or pedling little minded brethren , when they meet in affembly , chattering of canes and corn pieces , of grafs ...
... himself in private , to argue with fome degree of logic and graceful oratory ; not to follow the precepts of his caliloo , or pedling little minded brethren , when they meet in affembly , chattering of canes and corn pieces , of grafs ...
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