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 Edition |
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الصفحة 98
1 lodging ; and though one gets a falary of 1501 : or 2001. sterling per annum , he cannot save fixpence , if he lives and appears in the manner clerks generally do ; nay , it will be good economy if he keeps himself clear of debt ...
1 lodging ; and though one gets a falary of 1501 : or 2001. sterling per annum , he cannot save fixpence , if he lives and appears in the manner clerks generally do ; nay , it will be good economy if he keeps himself clear of debt ...
الصفحة 99
... and be put into business for himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrusted with the ...
... and be put into business for himself ; or if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he is intrusted with the ...
الصفحة 100
1 1 person may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a store and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commission on all goods he difposes of is sure and safe profit , and in time he may make some money , get credit ...
1 1 person may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a store and turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commission on all goods he difposes of is sure and safe profit , and in time he may make some money , get credit ...
الصفحة 101
ai ܚܐ t Et . As soon as a man gets poffeffion of some property , though it may be all on credit , or at best three fourths of it , he is stimulated by cruel pride and haughty ambition to signalize himself in fome public character ...
ai ܚܐ t Et . As soon as a man gets poffeffion of some property , though it may be all on credit , or at best three fourths of it , he is stimulated by cruel pride and haughty ambition to signalize himself in fome public character ...
الصفحة 102
When a man gets into the assembly , or becomes one of the council , he should study the laws of the inland , and the prosperity of the people in general , and learn by speaking to himself in private , to argue with some degree of logic ...
When a man gets into the assembly , or becomes one of the council , he should study the laws of the inland , and the prosperity of the people in general , and learn by speaking to himself in private , to argue with some degree of logic ...
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