| Thomas Clarkson - 1808 - 596 pagini
...contempt." After Dr. Primatt, we come to baron Montesquieu. " Slavery," says he, " is not good in itself. It is neither useful to the master nor to the slave. Not to the slave, because he can do nothing from virtuous motives. Not to the master, because he contracts among his slaves ail sorts of bad habits,... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1823 - 810 pagini
...gives to one man such a power over another, as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune. The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. It...accustoms himself to the want of all moral virtues, and from thence becomes fierce, hasty, severe, choleric, volupUnms, and cruel. In despotic countries, where... | |
| Esther Copley - 1836 - 814 pagini
...author of several moral and political works, justly pronounced " slavery to be not good in itself — it is neither useful to the master nor to the slave : not to the slave, because he can do nothing from virtuous motives ; not to the master, because he contracts among his slaves all sorts of bad habits,... | |
| Esther Copley - 1839 - 674 pagini
...author of several moral and political works, justly pronounced " slavery to be not good in itself — it is neither useful to the master nor to the slave : not to the slave, because he can do nothing from virtuous motives ; not to the master, because he contracts among his slaves all sorts of bad habits,... | |
| 1870 - 944 pagini
...it would be to their owners. An ingenious French writer (Montesquieu) well observes, ' the state oí slavery is, in its own nature bad ; it is neither...because he can do nothing through a motive of virtue; not to the master, because, by having an unlimited authority over his slaves, he insensibly accustoms... | |
| United States. Department of Education - 1871 - 944 pagini
...slaves than it would be to their owners. An ingenious French writer (Montesquieu) well observes, ' the state of slavery is, in its own nature bad; it...because he can do nothing through a motive of virtue ; not to the master, because, by having an unlimited authority over his slaves, he insensibly accustoms... | |
| 1871 - 1022 pagini
...master nor to the slave. Not to the slave, because he can do nothing through a motive of virtue ; not to the master, because, by having an unlimited authority...accustoms himself to the want of all moral virtues, and from thence grows fierce, hasty, severe, voluptuous, and cruel.' " I come now, in the last place, to... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1899 - 472 pagini
...gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune. The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. It...the want of all moral virtues, and thence becomes fierce, hasty, severe, choleric, voluptuous, and cruel. In despotic countries, where they are already... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1900 - 472 pagini
...power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune. The state of slayery._is~in its own nature bad. It is neither useful to the master...the want of all moral virtues, and thence becomes fierce, hasty, severe, choleric, voluptuous, and cruel. In despotic countries, where they are already... | |
| William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 362 pagini
...owners. An ingenious French writer [Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, book xv. chap, 1] well observes, that "the state of slavery is, in its own nature, bad :...because he can do nothing through a motive of virtue ; not to the master, because, by having an unlimited authority over his slaves, he insensibly accustoms... | |
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