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 63
... merchant ) , and having taken a propenfity to the law , after ferving him four or five years very faithful- ly , he was fent at the expence of Mr. Hebert . to the Temple , where he was generously support- ed for three or four years ; if ...
... merchant ) , and having taken a propenfity to the law , after ferving him four or five years very faithful- ly , he was fent at the expence of Mr. Hebert . to the Temple , where he was generously support- ed for three or four years ; if ...
الصفحة 64
... merchants in Kingf- town , Spanish Town , Montego Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and Irish , but ten times ... merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty inde- pendence ; or if he enters into the planting line , to ...
... merchants in Kingf- town , Spanish Town , Montego Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and Irish , but ten times ... merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty inde- pendence ; or if he enters into the planting line , to ...
الصفحة 74
... merchants and mafters of veffels to freight their fhips and give them quick dif- patch ; they get valuable prefents . The follow- ing is the nature of a letter from a needy attorney to the proprietor in London . Dear Sir , Spanish ...
... merchants and mafters of veffels to freight their fhips and give them quick dif- patch ; they get valuable prefents . The follow- ing is the nature of a letter from a needy attorney to the proprietor in London . Dear Sir , Spanish ...
الصفحة 97
... merchant and taylors ; in fhort , if he can keep tolerable clear of debt for four , five , or fix years , and humbly ... merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board ...
... merchant and taylors ; in fhort , if he can keep tolerable clear of debt for four , five , or fix years , and humbly ... merchants in general are batchelors , they dine at ordinaries ; their clerks are obliged to find themselves in board ...
الصفحة 98
... or another he will be a mer- chant ; well knowing that almost every Weft - In- dia merchant was nothing better originally than a clerk , a clerk , therefore they wear fine waiftcoats and florentine 98 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... or another he will be a mer- chant ; well knowing that almost every Weft - In- dia merchant was nothing better originally than a clerk , a clerk , therefore they wear fine waiftcoats and florentine 98 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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