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 14
... by whom they are taught to believe that fuperftition , ignorance and folly , are beaming virtues ; and no doubt but many of the poor beings , as flesh and blood , fecluded from all other fociety , thinks it no fin to become dupes to ...
... by whom they are taught to believe that fuperftition , ignorance and folly , are beaming virtues ; and no doubt but many of the poor beings , as flesh and blood , fecluded from all other fociety , thinks it no fin to become dupes to ...
الصفحة 18
... they are ignorant pretending quacks , apothecaries boys , and fuch trafh , who having a fmattering of Latin , hardly enough to pronounce the names of the few medicines they ufe , commit murder and deftruction amongst the human race ...
... they are ignorant pretending quacks , apothecaries boys , and fuch trafh , who having a fmattering of Latin , hardly enough to pronounce the names of the few medicines they ufe , commit murder and deftruction amongst the human race ...
الصفحة 23
There are many tafk - mafters , or employers , who care not how much young men expofe themfelves to the weather ; but fuch are cruel , uncharitable brutes puffed up with ignorance and empty pride , who forget their own origin , and the ...
There are many tafk - mafters , or employers , who care not how much young men expofe themfelves to the weather ; but fuch are cruel , uncharitable brutes puffed up with ignorance and empty pride , who forget their own origin , and the ...
الصفحة 50
... to as much or more than the ignorant man who is obligated to him for inftruction , and fupported in a more elevated ftation ; and thereby the bufinefs is of courfe neglected , and the proprietor in England , through the ignorance of ...
... to as much or more than the ignorant man who is obligated to him for inftruction , and fupported in a more elevated ftation ; and thereby the bufinefs is of courfe neglected , and the proprietor in England , through the ignorance of ...
الصفحة 51
... or , though I learned the theory of navigation , I might juft as well attempt , without any practice at fea , with a few ignorant feamen , to conduct a fhip through the deep and pathlefs ocean to any port in any diftant clime .
... or , though I learned the theory of navigation , I might juft as well attempt , without any practice at fea , with a few ignorant feamen , to conduct a fhip through the deep and pathlefs ocean to any port in any diftant clime .
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