| Richard Hildreth - Slavery - 1840 - 194 pages
...enforcement of an usurped authority, either personally, or by his delegate, which he himself describes, as " a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, — the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other." Ah Truth ! 'Tis thee alone that men should reverence... | |
| George Combe - Phrenology - 1841 - 420 pages
...our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man... | |
| Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...matehless system. THOMAS JEFFERSON. The whole commeree between master and slave is a perpetual exereise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other. Our children sec this and learn to imitate it ; for man... | |
| Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...prophetic words of Jefferson in his Notes on Virginia : — " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for... | |
| Universalism - 1862 - 462 pages
...Jefferson, who had ample opportunities for observation, said : " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this and learn to imitate it The parent... | |
| William Lyon Mackenzie - Lawyers - 1845 - 494 pages
...a letter to M. Wareville, Paris, February, 1788, that " The whole commerce between Master and Slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degiading submission on the other. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments... | |
| Friedrich von Raumer - United States - 1846 - 522 pages
...people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man... | |
| Enslaved persons - 1846 - 298 pages
...CHARACTER OF SLAVE-HOLDERS. TESTIMONY OF THOMAS JEFFEBSON. The whole commerce between master and slave, is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on one part, and degrading submissions on the other. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pages
...produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a neriJetual exercise of the most boisterous passions: the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on tho other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man... | |
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