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 104
... most pointedly , But it is a common proof , ambition's ladder , " That lowlinefs is young Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the ...
... most pointedly , But it is a common proof , ambition's ladder , " That lowlinefs is young Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the ...
الصفحة 124
... most thieving pilfering vagrants ; for never having practifed any industry , but beggared themselves by their profligacy and diffipation , Creole fashion , they are quite ignorant ever after of the ways and means to earn their ...
... most thieving pilfering vagrants ; for never having practifed any industry , but beggared themselves by their profligacy and diffipation , Creole fashion , they are quite ignorant ever after of the ways and means to earn their ...
الصفحة 129
... most honourable gentlemen into love ; and when the ball or rigadoon is over , efcort her to your house or lodging , and taste all the wanton and warm endearments she can yield before morn- ing . Here I must give you fome néceffary ...
... most honourable gentlemen into love ; and when the ball or rigadoon is over , efcort her to your house or lodging , and taste all the wanton and warm endearments she can yield before morn- ing . Here I must give you fome néceffary ...
الصفحة 132
... most beautifully , " Give not thy ftrength unto women , nor thy ' ways unto that which deftróyeth kings . - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey - comb , and her mouth is fmoother than oil : but her end is bitter as wormwood ...
... most beautifully , " Give not thy ftrength unto women , nor thy ' ways unto that which deftróyeth kings . - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey - comb , and her mouth is fmoother than oil : but her end is bitter as wormwood ...
الصفحة 133
... most abandoned finner cannot bear to hear the holy scriptures read over like a ballad by profli- gate rakes and pedagogues , who never were de- figned for facerdotal functions ; and who , inftead of fhewing good examples by endeavouring ...
... most abandoned finner cannot bear to hear the holy scriptures read over like a ballad by profli- gate rakes and pedagogues , who never were de- figned for facerdotal functions ; and who , inftead of fhewing good examples by endeavouring ...
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