| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1788 - 714 páginas
...the level of plain narration ; never fee even an el«mentary trait of painting or fculpture. In mufic they are more generally gifted than the Whites with...time, and they have been found capable of imagining a final! catch *. Whether they will be equal to the compofition of a more extenfive run of melody, or... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 páginas
...the level of plain narration ; never saw even an elementary trait of painting or sculptare. In.mtisic they are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for txme and time, and they have been found capable of imagining a small catch*. Whether they will 'be... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1834 - 468 páginas
...and the power of composing it proves the existence of both. Jefferson, accordingly, grants that, " in music, they are more generally gifted than the...have been found capable of imagining a small catch." Humboldt particularly that these excellent anatomists have not, in any one instance, traced the relative... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 632 páginas
...black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration ; never saw even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture. In music they are more generally...have been found capable of imagining a small catch.* AVhether they will be equal to the composition of a more extensive run of melody, or of complicated... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1880 - 1104 páginas
...that had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration ; never see even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture. In music they are more generally...have been found capable of imagining a small catch. * * * Religion indeed has produced a Phillis Whately [Wheatley]; but it could not produce a poet. The... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1889 - 990 páginas
...Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, printed in 1784, the following statement: "In music they [the blacks] are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate...have been found capable of imagining a small catch." In a foot-note Jefferson adds, "The instrument proper to them is the banjar. which they brought hither... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1889 - 984 páginas
...Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, printed in 1784, the following statement: "In music they [the blacks] are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate...have been found capable of imagining a small catch." In a foot-note Jefferson adds, "The instrument proper to them is the banjar. which they brought hither... | |
| Laurence Hutton - 1890 - 376 páginas
...Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, printed in 1784, the following statement: "In music they [the blacks] are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate...have been found capable of imagining a small catch." In a foot-note Jefferson adds, " The instru* ment proper to them is the banjar, which they A brought... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 558 páginas
...black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration ; never seen even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture. In music they are more generally...they have been found capable of imagining a small catch.1 Whether they will be equal to the composition of a more extensive run of melody, or of complicated... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 574 páginas
...black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration ; never seen even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture. In music they are more generally...they have been found capable of imagining a small catch.1 Whether they will be equal to the composition of a more extensive run of melody, or of complicated... | |
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