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 77
... most mana- gers are guilty of it . Thefe poor wretches wafh themselves in fome river or pond , brace up their breasts , and meet at the great - house , where they exercise themselves with great dexterity , by dan- cing in all the varied ...
... most mana- gers are guilty of it . Thefe poor wretches wafh themselves in fome river or pond , brace up their breasts , and meet at the great - house , where they exercise themselves with great dexterity , by dan- cing in all the varied ...
الصفحة 81
... most infignificant Connought favage bumpkin , or filly Highland gauky , will foon learn to flog without mercy to fhew his authority ; but when fuch get elevated to the exalted sphere of overfeer or cowskin hero , and get poffeffion of a ...
... most infignificant Connought favage bumpkin , or filly Highland gauky , will foon learn to flog without mercy to fhew his authority ; but when fuch get elevated to the exalted sphere of overfeer or cowskin hero , and get poffeffion of a ...
الصفحة 85
... most obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow existing . Little Confequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been fix months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got the parfonage of ...
... most obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow existing . Little Confequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been fix months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got the parfonage of ...
الصفحة 95
... most honour- able men in Jamaica were obliged to do it . Turkies are the most difficult kind to raise ; at first they require great care and attention , ' till they get ftrong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper , that ...
... most honour- able men in Jamaica were obliged to do it . Turkies are the most difficult kind to raise ; at first they require great care and attention , ' till they get ftrong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper , that ...
الصفحة 101
... most illiterate , rude , aukward tradef- men , fuch as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , fhavers or barbers , legislators in the West Indies . The next manovre is to get himself chofen one of the council or ...
... most illiterate , rude , aukward tradef- men , fuch as carpenters , bricklayers , mill - wrights , tinkers , taylors , fhavers or barbers , legislators in the West Indies . The next manovre is to get himself chofen one of the council or ...
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