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 82
... never make it exceed 130 hogtheads yearly ; yet he was fupported by the attorney , and made a confiderable property in flaves . Sneaking Caution was a poor , ftupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous difpofition ...
... never make it exceed 130 hogtheads yearly ; yet he was fupported by the attorney , and made a confiderable property in flaves . Sneaking Caution was a poor , ftupid , filly , narrow - minded animal , of a timid jealous difpofition ...
الصفحة 93
... never knew an overfeer there who did not ferve at least two or three years , ( fave only Little Confequence before mentioned ) . When a young man gets into a good employ , I mean where the attorney , without favour or affection , makes ...
... never knew an overfeer there who did not ferve at least two or three years , ( fave only Little Confequence before mentioned ) . When a young man gets into a good employ , I mean where the attorney , without favour or affection , makes ...
الصفحة 101
... never to be fo weak or filly to think that all the law is contained in Burns Juftice , leaft he brings himself into trouble : Burns Justice is only an index to part of the laws " a little learning is a dangerous thing . " I know a ma ...
... never to be fo weak or filly to think that all the law is contained in Burns Juftice , leaft he brings himself into trouble : Burns Justice is only an index to part of the laws " a little learning is a dangerous thing . " I know a ma ...
الصفحة 104
... never will be a great man : Shakespeare fays most pointedly , But it is a common proof , " That lowlinefs is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto ...
... never will be a great man : Shakespeare fays most pointedly , But it is a common proof , " That lowlinefs is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round , He then unto ...
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