 | George Washington - 1908 - 500 páginas
...diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly at its...slavery, but they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set them afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief; but... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 478 páginas
...diffuse itself generally, into the minds of the people of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly at its...but they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set the slave afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief, but... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 508 páginas
...last session, for the abolition of slavery, but they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set the slave afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and •Ford, "Washington's Writings," X, 241-243. i• Ibid., X, 220. mischief, but by degrees it certainly... | |
 | Owen Wister - 1928 - 298 páginas
...diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly, at...slavery, but they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set them afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief; but... | |
 | George Washington - 1931 - 636 páginas
...diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly, at...slavery, but they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set them afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief; but... | |
 | 1855 - 848 páginas
...Some petitions were presented to the Assembly nt its last session for the abolition of slavery, 4mt they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set the slaves afloat at once, would, I really believe, be much inconvenience and mischief, but by degrees it certainly might, and assuredly ought to be effected,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 páginas
...spirit might diffntt itself in the minds of the people of this country / But I despair of seeing it Some petitions were presented to the Assembly at,...Slavery, but they could scarcely obtain a reading." — Ibid., vol. ix., p. 163. In a remarkable and very interesting letter written by Lafayette in the... | |
 | Oscar Reiss - 1997 - 306 páginas
...might diffuse itself generally in the minds of the people of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the assembly, at...the abolition of slavery; but they could scarcely gain a reading. To set the slaves afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much meanness... | |
 | Fritz Hirschfeld - 1997 - 286 páginas
...people of this country, but I despair of seeing it — some petitions were presented to the [Virginia] Assembly at its last Session, for the abolition of...slavery, but they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set them [the slaves] afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience & mischief;... | |
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Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally, into the minds of the people of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions... 
