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 13
... young women fhould be compelled to whither out their days in fuch inglorious dens of folitude ? Deluded to think their prayers cannot reach heaven if not offered in goals : I was grieved to the foul whenever I faw any of them peeping ...
... young women fhould be compelled to whither out their days in fuch inglorious dens of folitude ? Deluded to think their prayers cannot reach heaven if not offered in goals : I was grieved to the foul whenever I faw any of them peeping ...
الصفحة 14
... young women " . And furely it is a violation of the Almighty's command not to " increase and multiply ; " for those who receive life fhould give life to others . I was hurt very much whenever I faw any of their bald - pated hypocritical ...
... young women " . And furely it is a violation of the Almighty's command not to " increase and multiply ; " for those who receive life fhould give life to others . I was hurt very much whenever I faw any of their bald - pated hypocritical ...
الصفحة 16
... fcratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , foon have their legs inflamed with difagree- able fores ; I have heard of many young men's legs , legs , through the venom of the mufquittoes , to 16 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... fcratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , foon have their legs inflamed with difagree- able fores ; I have heard of many young men's legs , legs , through the venom of the mufquittoes , to 16 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 23
... young men expose themselves to the weather ; but fuch are cruel , uncharitable brutes , puffed up with ignorance and empty pride , who forget their own origin , and the mean and bafe base degrees by which they did afcend ; their hearts ...
... young men expose themselves to the weather ; but fuch are cruel , uncharitable brutes , puffed up with ignorance and empty pride , who forget their own origin , and the mean and bafe base degrees by which they did afcend ; their hearts ...
الصفحة 34
... Putney Lodge , which lies at the east end of the town ; but it is dangerous to bathe in the fea , as many young men do , as there have been feveral feveral inftances of people being devoured by fharks at that 34 1 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... Putney Lodge , which lies at the east end of the town ; but it is dangerous to bathe in the fea , as many young men do , as there have been feveral feveral inftances of people being devoured by fharks at that 34 1 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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