The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by... The African Repository and Colonial Journal - Stran 3471830Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - 2002 - 562 strani
...which should promote love, temperance, and justice. Jefferson emphasized the gravity of this point: "The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." He next asserted that statesmen who permit "one half of the citizens ... to trample on the rights of... | |
| John T. Noonan - 2002 - 236 strani
...imitate it, for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him . . . The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." Written with sexual undercurrents and the tone of self-examination, this passage was followed by this... | |
| Gary Hart - 2002 - 305 strani
...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."109 "Jefferson consistently denounced the institution of slavery, calling it an 'abominable... | |
| Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. . . . Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep... | |
| John Hope Franklin - 2002 - 340 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities." 4 These views were not confined to the period of the Enlightenment. Observers of a later day noted... | |
| Milton Meltzer - 2003 - 156 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. As much as Virginia was based on slavery, so was it based on racial prejudice. Masters always see their... | |
| Mason I. Lowance - 572 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it...peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy, who can retain his morals and manners undepraved in such circumstances. . . ." In a community where all the labor is done... | |
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