The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern StatesLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - 490 páginas |
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... habit and familiarity with abuse . These circumstances , it might be supposed , would have secured him hearing and consideration . He seems to be equally unheeded , and the work of denunciation disdaining argument , still goes on ...
... habit and familiarity with abuse . These circumstances , it might be supposed , would have secured him hearing and consideration . He seems to be equally unheeded , and the work of denunciation disdaining argument , still goes on ...
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... habits of labor . Without it , there can be no accumulation of property , no pro- vidence for the future , no tastes for comfort or elegancies , which are the characteristics and essentials of civilization./He who has obtained the ...
... habits of labor . Without it , there can be no accumulation of property , no pro- vidence for the future , no tastes for comfort or elegancies , which are the characteristics and essentials of civilization./He who has obtained the ...
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... habits , may not attain to considerable opulence . So far as wealth has been accumulated in the States which do not possess slaves , it has been in cities by the pursuits of commerce , or lately , by manufactures . But the products of ...
... habits , may not attain to considerable opulence . So far as wealth has been accumulated in the States which do not possess slaves , it has been in cities by the pursuits of commerce , or lately , by manufactures . But the products of ...
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... habits and character of the society , and prescribe every where , and in every department , the highest possible standard of attainment . But how is it that the existence of Slavery , as with us , will retard the evils of civilization ...
... habits and character of the society , and prescribe every where , and in every department , the highest possible standard of attainment . But how is it that the existence of Slavery , as with us , will retard the evils of civilization ...
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... habits of our countrymen altered , there will be a larger and larger proportion of those who were reared by the owner , or derived to him from his ancestors , and who therefore will be more and more intimately regard- ed , as forming a ...
... habits of our countrymen altered , there will be a larger and larger proportion of those who were reared by the owner , or derived to him from his ancestors , and who therefore will be more and more intimately regard- ed , as forming a ...
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Página 107 - Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Página 156 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Página 105 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Página 256 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Página 255 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 256 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Página 413 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you today : for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Página 158 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Página 455 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 55 - It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions of the child, that should be the very outpourings of curiosity in idleness, are marked with forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to be a woman before it was a child. It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened ; it never prattles.