The Pro-Slavery Argument; As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern States, Containing the Several Essays, on the Subject, of ChScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1852 - 496 pagini |
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Pagina 45
... practice is licentious , but the understanding is sophistica- ted ; the moral feelings are bewildered , and the boundaries of virtue and vice are confused . Where such licentiousness very extensively prevails , society is rotten to the ...
... practice is licentious , but the understanding is sophistica- ted ; the moral feelings are bewildered , and the boundaries of virtue and vice are confused . Where such licentiousness very extensively prevails , society is rotten to the ...
Pagina 50
... practice the more destructive vices - how inappreciable would the boon be thought ! And is not this a very near approach to the con- dition of our slaves ? The evils of their situation they but lightly feel , and would hardly feel at ...
... practice the more destructive vices - how inappreciable would the boon be thought ! And is not this a very near approach to the con- dition of our slaves ? The evils of their situation they but lightly feel , and would hardly feel at ...
Pagina 79
... practices of modern civilized governments will apply to us . Standing armies , as they are elsewhere constituted , we cannot have ; for we have not , and for genera- tions cannot have , the materials out of which they are to be I formed ...
... practices of modern civilized governments will apply to us . Standing armies , as they are elsewhere constituted , we cannot have ; for we have not , and for genera- tions cannot have , the materials out of which they are to be I formed ...
Pagina 94
... regard him with distrust and ma- lignity . It is a part of the constitution of the human mind , that when circumstances of necessity or temptation induce men to continue in the practice of what they believe 94 HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY .
... regard him with distrust and ma- lignity . It is a part of the constitution of the human mind , that when circumstances of necessity or temptation induce men to continue in the practice of what they believe 94 HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY .
Pagina 95
None. men to continue in the practice of what they believe to be wrong , they become desperate and reckless of the degree of wrong . I have formerly heard of a master who accounted for his practising much severity upon his slaves , and ...
None. men to continue in the practice of what they believe to be wrong , they become desperate and reckless of the degree of wrong . I have formerly heard of a master who accounted for his practising much severity upon his slaves , and ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 156 - 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.
Pagina 167 - There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 436 - But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Pagina 459 - Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence...