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 81
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
Men , from their first entrance into the West Indies , are taught to practice severities to the Naves ; their minds are impressed by their brother book - keepers , or others , with strange and cruel ideas of the nature of blacks ...
الصفحة 101
When a man is appointed a justice of the peace he should have four volumes of Burns Justice by him ; and if he be of a fiery arbitrary nature , he should endeavour to curb and moderate his passions , to steer clear of prejudice , and to ...
When a man is appointed a justice of the peace he should have four volumes of Burns Justice by him ; and if he be of a fiery arbitrary nature , he should endeavour to curb and moderate his passions , to steer clear of prejudice , and to ...
الصفحة 103
... the meanest as well as the greatest , has an equal right to justice . Justice should not be bought or sold , nor should it be delayed from any man , for “ every man has a natural unalienable right to look upon himself equal to ...
... the meanest as well as the greatest , has an equal right to justice . Justice should not be bought or sold , nor should it be delayed from any man , for “ every man has a natural unalienable right to look upon himself equal to ...
الصفحة 110
... but in my opinion , though it stirs up the blood to force a Justful desire , it impairs the constitution : for nature when forced is impoverished ; hence , it is no way strange that her children are weak and sickly .
... but in my opinion , though it stirs up the blood to force a Justful desire , it impairs the constitution : for nature when forced is impoverished ; hence , it is no way strange that her children are weak and sickly .
الصفحة 119
Deareft favourite of the torrid zone , Whom nature , bounteous , sheds her blessings o'er , Where chilling blasts are never , never known , And clothes for ornament are only wore !
Deareft favourite of the torrid zone , Whom nature , bounteous , sheds her blessings o'er , Where chilling blasts are never , never known , And clothes for ornament are only wore !
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