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 96by John Elliott Cairnes - 1862 - 171 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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