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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... poor friends , is materially injured . He that would wish to be a planter , fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own in- ftruction , pay ...
... poor friends , is materially injured . He that would wish to be a planter , fhould attend the field from morning until night , obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own in- ftruction , pay ...
الصفحة 60
... poor are defpifed by the rich . " Talk not of ancestors , nor of their ftate ; " Tis perfonal virtue only makes us great . ” And I fhould think it ftrange if it was other- wife , when I confider how many great men there are in those ...
... poor are defpifed by the rich . " Talk not of ancestors , nor of their ftate ; " Tis perfonal virtue only makes us great . ” And I fhould think it ftrange if it was other- wife , when I confider how many great men there are in those ...
الصفحة 69
... poor orphans are fadly cheated during their minority , their properties , involved , abused and reduced , or totally swallow- ed up by greedy guardians . Cruel fofterors ! There the executor , or administrator , poffeffes himself at ...
... poor orphans are fadly cheated during their minority , their properties , involved , abused and reduced , or totally swallow- ed up by greedy guardians . Cruel fofterors ! There the executor , or administrator , poffeffes himself at ...
الصفحة 77
... poor overfeer if he affronts one of them ! When an attorney vifits a plantation , he com- monly invites a few diffipated gentlemen to spend a few days with him ; he fends wines and other neceffaries previously ; the only duty he does ...
... poor overfeer if he affronts one of them ! When an attorney vifits a plantation , he com- monly invites a few diffipated gentlemen to spend a few days with him ; he fends wines and other neceffaries previously ; the only duty he does ...
الصفحة 78
... poor bockra partners , being neglected , filently pass thofe nights in difagreeable flumbers , wrecked with jealoufy and torture . It is very amazing indeed to think how fur- prisingly nature operates through every pulfe and vein of ...
... poor bockra partners , being neglected , filently pass thofe nights in difagreeable flumbers , wrecked with jealoufy and torture . It is very amazing indeed to think how fur- prisingly nature operates through every pulfe and vein of ...
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