The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern StatesLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - 490 páginas |
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... person than their master , it is hardly possible for them to come into such sort of collision as usually gives rise to furious and revengeful passions ; they offer no temptation to the murderer for gain ; against the master himself ...
... person than their master , it is hardly possible for them to come into such sort of collision as usually gives rise to furious and revengeful passions ; they offer no temptation to the murderer for gain ; against the master himself ...
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... person of ordinary candor , say that there is one in a hundred of them , who does not well know , that with all the exertion he can make , it is out of his power materially to improve his circumstances ? I speak not so much of menial ...
... person of ordinary candor , say that there is one in a hundred of them , who does not well know , that with all the exertion he can make , it is out of his power materially to improve his circumstances ? I speak not so much of menial ...
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... single exception , in the person of a woman who betrayed some transient emotion in passing by the country from which she had been torn as a slave , the 66 authors add : " that Africans , generally speaking 56 HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY .
... single exception , in the person of a woman who betrayed some transient emotion in passing by the country from which she had been torn as a slave , the 66 authors add : " that Africans , generally speaking 56 HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY .
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... persons and eunuchs , that though in general there is something of perver- sity in the character , the disadvantage often leads to extraor- dinary displays of virtue and excellence . " Whoever hath any thing fixed in his person that ...
... persons and eunuchs , that though in general there is something of perver- sity in the character , the disadvantage often leads to extraor- dinary displays of virtue and excellence . " Whoever hath any thing fixed in his person that ...
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... persons who have more to gain than to lose by the over- throw of government , and the embroiling of social order . It is in such a state of things that those who were before at the bottom of society , rise to the surface . From causes ...
... persons who have more to gain than to lose by the over- throw of government , and the embroiling of social order . It is in such a state of things that those who were before at the bottom of society , rise to the surface . From causes ...
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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.