| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 páginas
...boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. own part, I call education, iiot that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that whic The hour of emancipation must come ; but whether it will be brought on by the generous energies of... | |
| Alfred Maurice Low - 1911 - 616 páginas
...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. . . . With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed."1 Jefferson himself was a slave-owner;... | |
| Jack Mclaughlin - 1990 - 496 páginas
...elegance of Monticello was made possible by an institution he publicly condemned. Although he wrote that a "man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved" by slavery, it is highly unlikely that he felt depraved because he was a slaveholder. Exactly what his... | |
| Michael James Lacey, Knud Haakonssen - 1992 - 492 páginas
...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus... | |
| Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - 1993 - 380 páginas
...the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and...can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."62 Under a system of slavery, Jefferson pointed out, half the population is forced to... | |
| Daniel John McInerney - 1994 - 256 páginas
...passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. . . . The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."11 Abolitionists cited Jefferson's comments to show the relation of morality and law... | |
| Fred Douglas Young - 1995 - 244 páginas
...children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... This quality is the germ of all education in him. . . . The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the...can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.11 Weaver also pointed to another trait that, while not peculiar to the American South,... | |
| Linda K. Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, Kathryn Kish Sklar - 1995 - 492 páginas
...of slave ownership "nursed, educated, and daily exercised" habits of tyranny, and he observed that "[t]he man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." In this part of his discussion, Jefferson's customary verbal talent and intellectual suppleness turned... | |
| Conor Cruise O'Brien - 1996 - 390 páginas
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus... | |
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