 | Bryan Edwards - 1793 - 516 Seiten
...has encreafed, under fo many difcouragements+ conjldered and difcuffed. J\. SUGAR plantation confifts of three great parts ; the Lands, the Buildings and the Stock : but before I proceed to difcriminate their relative proportions and value, it may be proper to obferve, that the bufinefs of... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1806 - 372 Seiten
...cultivation of the Sugar Islands has increased under so many discouragements, considered and discussed. A SUGAR plantation consists of three great parts;...in which the man that engages must engage deeply. — There is no medium, and very seldom the possibility of retreat. A British country gentleman, who... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1807 - 646 Seiten
...plantation consists of three great CHAP, parts; the Lands, the Buildings, and the Stock: *— • v— i but before I proceed to discriminate their relative...in which the man that engages, must engage deeply. — There is no medium, and very seldom the possibility of retreat. A British country gentleman, who... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 636 Seiten
...so many discouragements, considered and discussed. A SUGAR plantation consists of three great CHAP. parts ; the Lands, the Buildings, and the Stock :...in which the man that engages, must engage deeply. — There is no medium, and very seldom the possibility of retreat. A British country gentleman, who... | |
 | Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - 1918 - 560 Seiten
...much manufacturing as sugar did in preparing the crops for market. As Bryan Edwards wrote in 1793: "the business of sugar planting is a sort of adventure...in which the man that engages must engage deeply. ... It requires a capital of no less than thirty thousand pounds sterling to embark in this employment... | |
 | Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - 1918 - 544 Seiten
...much manufacturing as sugar did in preparing the crops for market. As Bryan Edwards wrote in 1793: "the business of sugar planting is a sort of adventure...in which the man that engages must engage deeply. ... It requires a capital of no less than thirty thousand pounds sterling to embark in this employment... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Halcrow - 1982 - 100 Seiten
...could produce twice that amount of sugar. By the end of the eighteenth century Bryan Edwards wrote, The business of sugar planting is a sort of adventure...in which the man that engages must engage deeply. It requires a capital of no less than thirty thousand pounds sterling to embark in this employment... | |
 | David W. Galenson - 2002 - 252 Seiten
...required to start up a sugar plantation of even moderate size, West Indian planters quickly realized "that the business of sugar planting is a sort of...in which the man that engages, must engage deeply," and throughout the islands the consolidation of many small farms into large plantations followed the... | |
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I proceed to discriminate their relative proportions and value, it may be proper to observe, that the business of sugar planting is a sort of adventure in which the man that engages must engage deeply. — There is no medium, and very seldom the possibility... 