What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through... The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787 - Page 171by Thomas Jefferson - 1894Full view - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - 1820 - 486 pages
...legation to France. But there were not wanting in that Assembly, men of virtue enough to propose, and talents to vindicate this clause. But they saw, that...who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives... | |
| 1844 - 454 pages
...of his countrymen in maintaining slavery, are thus given in a communication to one of his friends: ' What an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 486 pages
...legation to France. But there were not wanting in that Assembly, men of virtue enough to propose, and talents to vindicate this clause. But they saw, that...who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...legation to France. But there were not wanting in that Assembly, men of virtue enough to propose, and talents to vindicate this clause. But they saw, that...who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...this clause. But they saw, that the moment of doing it with success, was not yet arrived, and thal an unsuccessful effort, as too often happens, would...who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his owu liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 pages
...stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and,...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial,and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery,... | |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1833 - 354 pages
..." What an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and...deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more... | |
| James Stuart - 1833 - 632 pages
...countrymen in maintaining slavery, are thus given in a communication to one of his friends : — " What an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives... | |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1833 - 362 pages
...impossible to account" The writer of the declaration of American independence has also written — " What an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...learning the passage of the Slave Bill in Virginia, without the adoption of his concerted amendment. ' What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine...who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives... | |
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