| Great Britain. Parliament - 1788 - عدد الصفحات: 772
...that ths ftate offlavery, however mitigated, was a ftate fo improper, fo degrading, and fo ruinous to the feelings and capacities of human nature, that it ought not to be futFered toexift. Protraction might raiie hopes in the unfortunate people, whofu freedom they were... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...slavery, which followed it, however mitigated, was a state so improper, so degrading, and so ruinous to the feelings and capacities of human nature, that it ought not to be suffered to exist. He deprecated delay in this business, as well for the sake of the planters as of the slaves. Mr. Gascoyne,... | |
| William Cobbett - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 736
...that the state of slavery, however mitigated, was a state so improper, so degrading, and so ruinous to the feelings and capacities of human nature, that it ought not to be suffered to exist. Protraction might raise hopes in the unfortunate people, whose freedom they were anxious to restore,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...that the state of slavery, however mitigated, was a state so improper, so degrading, and so ruinous to the feelings and capacities of human nature, that it ought not to be suffered to exist. Protraction might raise hopes in the unfortunate people whose freedom they were anxious to restore,... | |
| 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 864
...earth." We agree with Mr. Burke, that " Slavery is a state so improper, so degrading, and so ruinous to the feelings and capacities of human nature, that it ought not to be suffered to exist. The manufactures of the Africans by their ingenuity, prove them to be equal in intellect to others,... | |
| John Riland - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 24
...criminals upon earth." Mr. Burke says, " Slavery is a state so improper, so degrading, and so ruinous to the feelings and capacities of human nature, that it ought not to be suffered to exist." Dr. Paleysays, " The West-Indian slave is placed for life in subjection to a dominion and system of... | |
| William Thomas - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...of situation is among possible events : that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with us in such a contest But it is impossible to be temperate, and to pursue tin's subject through the various considerations... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 644
...present aspect of the Republic? — Jefferson, who, speaking of a contest with insurgent slaves, said, ' The Almighty has no attribute ' which can take sides with us in such a contest.' Washington, whose unsullied name has been desecrated by being bestowed upon the central slave-mart... | |
| William Jay - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...policy can extenuate."—Horseley. 13 " Slavery is a state so improper, so degrading, and so ruinous to the feelings and capacities of human nature, that it ought not to be suffered to exist."—Burke. "No man is by nature the property of another. The right." of nature must be some way... | |
| William Jay - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...The rights of Nature must be by some way Ibrfeited before they can be justly taken away." Johnson. " The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with us in such a contest"—(a contest with insurgent slaves). Jefferson. "Slavery is the infringement of all laws:... | |
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