The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern StatesLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - 490 páginas |
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... laws have fixed as that at which he is supposed to have attained the maturity of his faculties . Then inequality is further developed , and becomes infinite in every society , and under whatever form of govern- ment . Wealth and poverty ...
... laws have fixed as that at which he is supposed to have attained the maturity of his faculties . Then inequality is further developed , and becomes infinite in every society , and under whatever form of govern- ment . Wealth and poverty ...
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... law , binding on societies as on individuals . Society must act in good faith . No man , or body of men , has a right to inflict pain or privation on others , unless with a view , after full and impartial deliberation , to prevent a ...
... law , binding on societies as on individuals . Society must act in good faith . No man , or body of men , has a right to inflict pain or privation on others , unless with a view , after full and impartial deliberation , to prevent a ...
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... law which sanctions it , and would be violated by its invasion . It must refer either to the general law of morality , or the law of the country - the law of God or the law of man . If the law of any country permitted it , it would of ...
... law which sanctions it , and would be violated by its invasion . It must refer either to the general law of morality , or the law of the country - the law of God or the law of man . If the law of any country permitted it , it would of ...
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... 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 what right does society ...
... 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 what right does society ...
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... laws of society allow it , and if it be on sufficient grounds , neither he nor society do wrong . And is it by this ... law . It is not necessary for us to resort to the theory which resolves all right into force . The existence of such ...
... laws of society allow it , and if it be on sufficient grounds , neither he nor society do wrong . And is it by this ... law . It is not necessary for us to resort to the theory which resolves all right into force . The existence of such ...
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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.