The Pro-slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern StatesLippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1853 - 490 páginas |
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... thing be found in it , and especially in what may be regarded rather as its ornament than its substance - false , sophistical or unmeaning , that re- spect should not screen it from the freest examination . All men are born free and ...
... thing be found in it , and especially in what may be regarded rather as its ornament than its substance - false , sophistical or unmeaning , that re- spect should not screen it from the freest examination . All men are born free and ...
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... things , the existence of civil liberty is most the result of artificial in- stitution . The proclivity of the natural man is to domineer or to be subservient . A noble result , indeed , but in the at- taining of which , as in the ...
... things , the existence of civil liberty is most the result of artificial in- stitution . The proclivity of the natural man is to domineer or to be subservient . A noble result , indeed , but in the at- taining of which , as in the ...
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... thing . And by what right does society punish by the loss of life or liberty ? Not on account of the moral guilt of the criminal — not by impiously and arrogantly assuming the prerogative of the Almighty , to dispense justice or ...
... thing . And by what right does society punish by the loss of life or liberty ? Not on account of the moral guilt of the criminal — not by impiously and arrogantly assuming the prerogative of the Almighty , to dispense justice or ...
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... thing is certain , it is certain that there were no means by which he could possess the country , without exterminating or enslaving them . Savage and civilized man cannot live to- gether , and the savage can only be tamed by being ...
... thing is certain , it is certain that there were no means by which he could possess the country , without exterminating or enslaving them . Savage and civilized man cannot live to- gether , and the savage can only be tamed by being ...
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... thing that may be a source of enjoyment or suf- fering , it is for the most part useless . How can you compare the pleasures resulting from the exercise of the understanding , the taste and the imagination , with the animal enjoyments ...
... thing that may be a source of enjoyment or suf- fering , it is for the most part useless . How can you compare the pleasures resulting from the exercise of the understanding , the taste and the imagination , with the animal enjoyments ...
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Página 453 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
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 318 - 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. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Página 167 - There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside...
Página 16 - 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 259 - All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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 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.
Página 453 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort.
Página 461 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.