The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern StatesLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - 490 páginas |
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... perhaps justly , to be farthest advanced in civilization and intelligence , but which have had the smallest opportunity of observing its true character and effects - it is denounced as the most intolerable of social and political evils ...
... perhaps justly , to be farthest advanced in civilization and intelligence , but which have had the smallest opportunity of observing its true character and effects - it is denounced as the most intolerable of social and political evils ...
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... perhaps the most profound , original , and truly philo- sophical treatise , which has appeared within the time of my recollection , seems not to have attracted the slightest atten- tion out of the limits of the slaveholding States ...
... perhaps the most profound , original , and truly philo- sophical treatise , which has appeared within the time of my recollection , seems not to have attracted the slightest atten- tion out of the limits of the slaveholding States ...
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... Perhaps nothing can be more evident than that it is the sole cause . If anything can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man , it is that he will not labor beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence ...
... Perhaps nothing can be more evident than that it is the sole cause . If anything can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man , it is that he will not labor beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence ...
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... perhaps the Creator did not intend that we should arrive at perfect certainty with regard to the morality of actions . If , after the most careful examination of conse- many quences that we are able to make , with due 2 * HARPER'S ...
... perhaps the Creator did not intend that we should arrive at perfect certainty with regard to the morality of actions . If , after the most careful examination of conse- many quences that we are able to make , with due 2 * HARPER'S ...
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... perhaps there is none but omni- potence who can say in which the scale of good or evil most preponderates . We need say nothing of the evils of savage life . There is a state of society elevated somewhat above it , which is to be found ...
... perhaps there is none but omni- potence who can say in which the scale of good or evil most preponderates . We need say nothing of the evils of savage life . There is a state of society elevated somewhat above it , which is to be found ...
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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.