 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 strani
...specially enraged him was that the cry of "liberty" should be raised by slaveowners. "How is it" he asked "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Nearly fifty years before the abolition of slavery was first discussed in Parliament, Johnson had maintained... | |
 | 588 strani
...Taxation no Tyranny, his 'answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress,' he asks 'how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' The prejudice in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is of a different kind, and never displeasing.... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 strani
...whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny he says, ' How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes he asked, ' Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 strani
...whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny he says, ' How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes he asked, 'Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 368 strani
...Johnson's talent for history, his political essays should not be forgotten, with their scornful insight : " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " And his latest work is historical : the Lives of the Poets. All these things are a long way from... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 366 strani
...Johnson's talent for history, his political essays should not be forgotten, with their scornful insight : " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " And his latest work is historical : the Lives of the Poets. All these things are a long way from... | |
 | 1926 - 720 strani
...and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." "How is it," he asked again, "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes? " That was indeed a fairer thrust 1 "I am willing to love all mankind," the doctor observed in the... | |
 | William Archer - 1927 - 342 strani
...the pamphlet and looks for the passage.) Ah, here it is : " If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " MRS. LEWIS. " Drivers of negroes ", indeed ! As if our faithful, devoted black servants required... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 strani
...Taxation no Tyranny, his " answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress," he asks " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? " The prejudice in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scot1 This was first published by Malone as an appendix... | |
 | 1855 - 848 strani
...present, th.«. while eager fot СгесЛоти <a«,\sjs>tív.Nu% Ю1 rivet the chains of their slaves. To him at least could never be applied Dr. Johnson's...period of calm deliberation, in one of his letters to Lafayette : " ' Your late purchase of an estate in Cayenne with a view of emancipating the slaves on... | |
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His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of... 
