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 71
... painful fervitude deserved it ; in fhort , any man who prefumes to be an attorney , fhould have gone through all the painful toils and drudgeries of an overfeer , for three or four years , and be an experienced planter , planter , to be ...
... painful fervitude deserved it ; in fhort , any man who prefumes to be an attorney , fhould have gone through all the painful toils and drudgeries of an overfeer , for three or four years , and be an experienced planter , planter , to be ...
الصفحة 79
... would fecretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded fet of cowfkin heroes ; it would be pain F 4 to • to him to expose his conftitution to the climate IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . ་ ཀ 9.
... would fecretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded fet of cowfkin heroes ; it would be pain F 4 to • to him to expose his conftitution to the climate IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . ་ ཀ 9.
الصفحة 80
... painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches tamely without murmering , he need never ex- pect to fucceed ; and tho ' the overfeer be ever fo ...
... painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , flatter , lie and diffemble , and bear all the overfeer's infults and reproaches tamely without murmering , he need never ex- pect to fucceed ; and tho ' the overfeer be ever fo ...
الصفحة 90
... and gain , Whilft they trudge thro ' mud and rain ; Expos'd to toil , disease and pain , Whilft I'm a cowskin hero ! Alluding to the attorney . My My driver I've made crazy , The flaves under due 90 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... and gain , Whilft they trudge thro ' mud and rain ; Expos'd to toil , disease and pain , Whilft I'm a cowskin hero ! Alluding to the attorney . My My driver I've made crazy , The flaves under due 90 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 117
... pain for poor Laura , for she was my favourite . The fact ap- peared to be this ; fhe had been that forenoon , as ufual , in the cook - room , where he ate a cala- bash full of fubftantial pepperpot ; it had a pur- gative effect on her ...
... pain for poor Laura , for she was my favourite . The fact ap- peared to be this ; fhe had been that forenoon , as ufual , in the cook - room , where he ate a cala- bash full of fubftantial pepperpot ; it had a pur- gative effect on her ...
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