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 99
Now , as it appears from what I have said , that clerks save nothing , but rather involve themselves in debt , you may ask , “ how is it possible that they can ever become merchants , or great men ? ” It may indeed surprise you , as it ...
Now , as it appears from what I have said , that clerks save nothing , but rather involve themselves in debt , you may ask , “ how is it possible that they can ever become merchants , or great men ? ” It may indeed surprise you , as it ...
الصفحة 100
... get credit , and turn merchant ; indeed any huckfter or grog - shop keeper with care , industry , and a little roguery , will make money fast , and may commence a merchant ; a young man who is fent out supercargo , if he conducts ...
... get credit , and turn merchant ; indeed any huckfter or grog - shop keeper with care , industry , and a little roguery , will make money fast , and may commence a merchant ; a young man who is fent out supercargo , if he conducts ...
الصفحة 108
... for it appeared she had not only criminal connections with the marine hero , but with merchants , planters , and clerks : the letters were producedin court , with her own private journal of all her intrigues and amours ...
... for it appeared she had not only criminal connections with the marine hero , but with merchants , planters , and clerks : the letters were producedin court , with her own private journal of all her intrigues and amours ...
الصفحة 128
c . for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and clerks , & c . frequent such affemblies , and promiscuously meet and joftle each other : I have spent many merry nights at fuch balls .
c . for which each gentleman pays three or four dollars : lawyers , merchants and clerks , & c . frequent such affemblies , and promiscuously meet and joftle each other : I have spent many merry nights at fuch balls .
الصفحة 145
On the day of sale they are exposed on board as they came into the world , or at the merchants ftore to whom they are consigned : the planters , overseers & c . attend , and pick and chuse. overseers , horses IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
On the day of sale they are exposed on board as they came into the world , or at the merchants ftore to whom they are consigned : the planters , overseers & c . attend , and pick and chuse. overseers , horses IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
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| العنوان | 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 |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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