| Julius Rubens Ames - Abolitionists - 1857 - 348 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...the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but... | |
| Michael Rogin - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 374 pages
...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it;... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the...cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. 14 Shipboard slavery, in Melville's account, placed the lash in the hands of young boys. threats of... | |
| 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...circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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...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
...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...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
...their 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...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... | |
| Fred Douglas Young - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 244 pages
...children see 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...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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