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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... "
The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an ... - Page 96
by John Elliott Cairnes - 1862 - 171 pages
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Foundations of American Constitutionalism

David A. J. Richards - Philosophy - 1989 - 332 pages
...immorality was also connected to the consequence of more generalized political attitudes: The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments...in the 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...
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Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism

Wai Chee Dimock - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 268 pages
...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...in the 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...
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Intellectual Life in America: A History

Lewis Perry - History - 1989 - 479 pages
...aspirations of dissenters to analysis of the "boisterous passions" churned up by slaveholding: "The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments...in the 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...
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Children and Childhood in Classical Athens

Mark Golden - History - 1993 - 292 pages
...relations with one another, and to pursue this pattern of behavior as adults. As Jefferson says, The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments...airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose rein to the worst passions; and, thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but...
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Troublesome Presence: Democracy and Black Americans

Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - Social Science - 1993 - 380 pages
...the other." However, he pointed out, these habits are transmitted from parent to child. "The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments...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 it...
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Richard M. Weaver, 1910-1963: A Life of the Mind

Fred Douglas Young - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 244 pages
...this, and learn to imitate it. ... This quality is the germ of all education in him. . . . The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments...in the 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...
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A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate Over the Constitution

John P. Kaminski, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for the Study of the American Constitution - History - 1995 - 310 pages
...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...in the 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...
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The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800

Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...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...in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped...
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The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800

Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...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...in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, edu-cated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped...
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Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson

Edwin S. Gaustad - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 268 pages
...slave-owning parent, more often than not, behaved like a tyrant toward his or her slave. "The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circles of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions," Jefferson wrote in the Notes. The...
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