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 185
... yet you muft ftrive to keep yourself neat and clean ; and be not mimically in or ridiculously out of the fashion ; have your apparel rather above than below your circumstances , and support your dignity according to the station you ...
... yet you muft ftrive to keep yourself neat and clean ; and be not mimically in or ridiculously out of the fashion ; have your apparel rather above than below your circumstances , and support your dignity according to the station you ...
الصفحة 186
yourself ; and speak cautiously either in prail or difpraise of men . " When to the world you others faults make known , " Ingeniously reflect upon your own . " And again : " Commend not , ' till a man is thoroughly known ; " A rafcal ...
yourself ; and speak cautiously either in prail or difpraise of men . " When to the world you others faults make known , " Ingeniously reflect upon your own . " And again : " Commend not , ' till a man is thoroughly known ; " A rafcal ...
الصفحة 188
And be not pofitive nor felf - opiniated ; confider that others may have a right to be as intilligent as yourself . Though you will improve by converfation with fenfible men or women , yet be not fond of controverfy , or of entering ...
And be not pofitive nor felf - opiniated ; confider that others may have a right to be as intilligent as yourself . Though you will improve by converfation with fenfible men or women , yet be not fond of controverfy , or of entering ...
الصفحة 189
J Be not fond of borrowing , or of lending , or of becoming fecurity for another , least you not only lose the loan and friend , but get yourself into a fnare . " Be not thou one of them that strike hands , or of them that are ...
J Be not fond of borrowing , or of lending , or of becoming fecurity for another , least you not only lose the loan and friend , but get yourself into a fnare . " Be not thou one of them that strike hands , or of them that are ...
الصفحة 191
... it will answer the fame , and you will thereby improve yourself : let the ftile be plain and eafy , free from affectation and ill - connected phrases ; when writing , always fuppose the perfon prefent , as if you was speaking to him ...
... it will answer the fame , and you will thereby improve yourself : let the ftile be plain and eafy , free from affectation and ill - connected phrases ; when writing , always fuppose the perfon prefent , as if you was speaking to him ...
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