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 120
J. B. Moreton. I ftill regard the young ladies , though I abhor their manners and cuftoms ; I think it is to be lamented that in fuch a florifhing ifland as Ja- maica , there are not proper feminaries for the inftruction of both fexes ...
J. B. Moreton. I ftill regard the young ladies , though I abhor their manners and cuftoms ; I think it is to be lamented that in fuch a florifhing ifland as Ja- maica , there are not proper feminaries for the inftruction of both fexes ...
الصفحة 121
... lady is fo foft and ignorant as Mifs Louisa and Mifs Laura . I have mentioned be fore , that those who are educated properly from their infancy are as chafte and well bred women as any in the world ; I only point particularly at those ...
... lady is fo foft and ignorant as Mifs Louisa and Mifs Laura . I have mentioned be fore , that those who are educated properly from their infancy are as chafte and well bred women as any in the world ; I only point particularly at those ...
الصفحة 122
... ladies throw all care afide , and be all attention ; there is a certain affable and agreeable lively behaviour , and ... lady prevent , " She too has this palpable failing ; " The perquifite foftens her intò confent ; " That reafon with ...
... ladies throw all care afide , and be all attention ; there is a certain affable and agreeable lively behaviour , and ... lady prevent , " She too has this palpable failing ; " The perquifite foftens her intò confent ; " That reafon with ...
الصفحة 126
... ladies , as I have faid before , will hire their negroe wenches to white men for that ufe . If you wish to get a fine young Mongrel , you must folicit the favour of the mistress , or give five pounds to the black mother as well as to ...
... ladies , as I have faid before , will hire their negroe wenches to white men for that ufe . If you wish to get a fine young Mongrel , you must folicit the favour of the mistress , or give five pounds to the black mother as well as to ...
الصفحة 184
... your modefty have a certain degree of manly affurance , without arrogance or infolest pride : too much bashfulness or modefty makes a man appear appear aukward even among ladies ; and too much familiarity 184 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... your modefty have a certain degree of manly affurance , without arrogance or infolest pride : too much bashfulness or modefty makes a man appear appear aukward even among ladies ; and too much familiarity 184 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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