The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern StatesLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - 490 páginas |
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... happiness . " It is not the first time that I have had occasion to observe that men may repeat with the utmost confidence , some maxim or sentimental phrase , as self - evident or admitted truth , which is either palpably false , or to ...
... happiness . " It is not the first time that I have had occasion to observe that men may repeat with the utmost confidence , some maxim or sentimental phrase , as self - evident or admitted truth , which is either palpably false , or to ...
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... happiness , or freedom . Man has been endowed by his Creator with certain inalien- able rights , among which are life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness . What is meant by the inalienable right of liber- ty ? Has any one who has ...
... happiness , or freedom . Man has been endowed by his Creator with certain inalien- able rights , among which are life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness . What is meant by the inalienable right of liber- ty ? Has any one who has ...
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... happiness ! Why all the laws of society are intended for nothing else but to restrain men from the pursuit of happiness , according to their own ideas of happiness or advantage— which the phrase must mean if it means any thing . And by ...
... happiness ! Why all the laws of society are intended for nothing else but to restrain men from the pursuit of happiness , according to their own ideas of happiness or advantage— which the phrase must mean if it means any thing . And by ...
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... happiness is the great end of existence , the sole object of all animated and sentient beings . To this he has directed their aspirations and efforts , and we feel that we thwart his benevolent pur- poses when we destroy or impede that ...
... happiness is the great end of existence , the sole object of all animated and sentient beings . To this he has directed their aspirations and efforts , and we feel that we thwart his benevolent pur- poses when we destroy or impede that ...
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... happiness as well as his own . Moralists have denounced the injustice and cruelty which have been practised towards our aboriginal Indians , by which they have been driven from their native seats and exterminated , and no doubt with ...
... happiness as well as his own . Moralists have denounced the injustice and cruelty which have been practised towards our aboriginal Indians , by which they have been driven from their native seats and exterminated , and no doubt with ...
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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.