They are more ardent after their female: but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. The Abolitionist Movementby Claudine L. Ferrell - 2006 - 210 pagesNo preview available - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...present. When present, they do' not go through it with more coolness or steadj;ness than the whites. They are more ardent after their female : but love...with them to be more an eager desire, than a, tender, delis cate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions,... | |
| George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 192 pages
...person, * Mr. Jefferson, in his Notes on Virginia, speaking of slaves, makes the following remarks: " In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection. To this must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions and unemployed... | |
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...present. — When present, they do not go through it with more coolness or steadiness than the whites. They are more ardent after their female : but love...sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions, which render it doubtful whether heaven has given life to us in mercy... | |
| Julien-Joseph Virey - African Americans - 1837 - 202 pages
...be present. When present, they do not go through it with more coolness or steadiness than the whites They are more ardent after their female : but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, that a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient.-— Those numberless... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 360 pages
...whether Heaven has given life to us in mercy or in wrath, are less felt and sooner forgotten by them. In general their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection." • availed them»el»esof the conversations of their masters. Many have been brought up to the handicraft... | |
| John Campbell - African Americans - 1851 - 566 pages
...present. When present, they do not go through it with more coolness or steadiness than the whites. They are more ardent after their female : but love...seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a teller delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...present. When present, they do not go through it with more coolness or steadiness than the whites. They are more ardent after their female ; but love...sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions, which render it doubtful whether heaven has given life to us in mercy... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...present. When present, they do not go through it with more coolness or steadiness than the whites. They are more ardent after their female ; but love...delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their gricfs are transient. Those numberless afflictions, which render it doubtful whether heaven has given... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...whether heaven has given life to us in me:ey or in wrath, are less felt, and sooner forgotten with them. In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection. To this must be ascribed their dis|wsiti' ;, to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemploy... | |
| George MacDowell STROUD - Slavery - 1856 - 316 pages
...Mr. Jefferson, in his " Notes on Virginia," speaking of slaves, makes the following remarks : — " In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection. To this must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions and unemployed... | |
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