 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these...which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre. (B.) The height of our mountains has not yet been esimated with any degree of exactness. The Alleghaney... | |
 | 1819 - 654 pages
...an unhappy in* fluence on the manners of the people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave, is a...despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions onthe other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. The parent... | |
 | Thomas Ashe - 1803 - 402 pages
...The act immediately destroyed the whole commerce and distinction between master and slave, which was a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. To this benign and humane proceeding may be attributed the rapid prosperity... | |
 | Thomas Ashe - 1808 - 310 pages
...The act immediately destroyed the whole commerce and distinction between master and slave, which was a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. To this benign and humane proceeding may be attributed the rapid prosperity of the State. Many of those... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed iheir lives withjn half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these...which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre. FALLS OF NIAGARA. * These falls have long been celebrated, as sustaining the first rank among natural... | |
 | 1825 - 798 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of the people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it, for man is an imitative animal.... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 344 pages
...as in the neighbourhood of the Natural Bridge, are people, who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these...must have shaken the earth itself to its centre." — Notes, p. 27. Crossing Harper's Ferry, I ascended with some toil the mountain precipice, C, on... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 944 pages
...Natural Bridge, " are people who have passed their lives " within half a dozen miles, and have ne" ver been to survey these monuments of " a war between...must have shaken the earth itself, " to its centre." — Notes, p. 27. Crossing Harper's Ferry, I ascended with some toil the mountain precipice, C, on... | |
 | Francis Hall - 1818 - 564 pages
...unhappy '' influence on the manners of the people, pro" duced by the existence of slavery among u*. *' The whole commerce between master and " slave, is...the most "boisterous passions; the most unremitting des" potism on the one part, and degrading sub" missions on the other. Our children see this, " and... | |
 | David Martin - 1819 - 124 pages
...an unhappy influence on »he manners of our people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degraded submission on the other." Again, "With what execration should the statesman be loaded, who,... | |
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. 
