 What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his...  The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it - Page 194by Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 404 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him thro' his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But we must await with patience the workings of an overruling providence, and hope that that is preparing... | |
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him thro' his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bond-age, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But we must await with patience the workings of an overruling providence, and hope that that is preparing... | |
 | Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...vindication of his own liberty, and next moment be deaf to all these motives whose power supported him thro' his trial, and inflict on his fellow man a bondage,...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose." Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography (1821), in Thomas Jefferson: Writings (Peterson, ed., 1984), at 5,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him thro' his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But we must await with patience the workings of an overruling providence, and hope that that is preparing... | |
 | Jeffrey Robert Young - History - 1999 - 356 pages
...death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1786 In practically every historical setting, slaveowners have abhorred rapid social... | |
 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - History - 2001 - 340 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose." And, should such a contest take place, the God of Justice will be on the side of the oppressed blacks.... | |
 | Gary Hart - Political Science - 2002 - 305 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him thro' his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But we must await with patience the workings of an overruling providence, & hope that that is preparing... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 376 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him thro' his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But we must await with patience the workings of an overruling providence, & hope that that is preparing... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 2003 - 276 pages
...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more...ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But we must await, with patience, the workings of an overruling Providence, and hope that that is preparing... | |
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