 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal 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,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. 2. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst passions, and, thus nursed,... | |
 | William Frederick Poole - History - 1873 - 120 pages
...one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this and learn to imitate it. ... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst of passions ; and thus nursed,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - History - 1874 - 524 pages
...on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. . . . 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 rein to the worst of passions, and, thus... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham - History - 1980 - 548 pages
...it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. 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,... | |
 | Richard R. Beeman, Stephen Botein, Edward Carlos Carter, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) - History - 1987 - 380 pages
...part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitiate it. ... 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 passions, and thus nursed,... | |
 | Philip Greven - History - 1988 - 449 pages
...experience the likelihood of children learning to be tyrannical from watching parents with slaves. "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 his worst passions, and thus nursed,... | |
 | David A. J. Richards - Philosophy - 1989 - 332 pages
...immoral but its immorality was also connected to the consequence of more generalized political attitudes: 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 his worst of passions, and thus nursed,... | |
 | Wai Chee Dimock - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 268 pages
...on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. . . . 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 his worst of passions, and thus nursed,... | |
 | Lewis Perry - History - 1989 - 479 pages
...the aspirations of dissenters to analysis of the "boisterous passions" churned up by slaveholding: "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 his worst of passions, and thus nursed,... | |
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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... 
