| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 564 pages
...none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty...among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt awhile this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy. Let us remember, that being to contend, according... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 pages
...none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty...among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt awhile this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy. Let us remember, that beingto contend, according... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 510 pages
...none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes I But let us interrupt a while this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy. Let us remember that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 540 pages
...perspicacious politicians are able to foresee./ j If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that wa hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt awhile this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy. Let us remember, that being to contend, according... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " DS: "I do not perceive why the profession of a player should be despised ; for th ?" and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkcs* he asked, " Where did Beckford and Trecothick leam English?"... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes1 he asked, " Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes 1 he asked, " Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English... | |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...the chains of their slave. To him at least could never be applied Dr. Johnson's taunting words : " How is it " that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among " the drivers of negroes ? " The views of Washington on this great question are best shown at the close of the Revolutionary... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
...essential element in a free government?" It is true that Dr. Johnson, with keenest irony, exclaims, " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes !" It is true also that the celebrated Burke declared, " that masters would, even more than other men,... | |
| William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how comes it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" These few extracts from this celebrated pamphlet may give you some idea of the comprehensiveness of... | |
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