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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. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an... "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 64
1825
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Analytical Sixth Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General ...

Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see. this, and learn to imitate it, for man is an imitative animal. This quality ia the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do...
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The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and ...

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 pages
...American minister to France. He forcefully denounced "the whole commerce between master and slave" as "a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...one part, and degrading submission on the other." "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure," he asked in the same paragraph, "when we have removed...
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A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate Over the Constitution

John P. Kaminski, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for the Study of the American Constitution - History - 1995 - 310 pages
...most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do...
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Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass

Martin Klammer - Social Science - 2010 - 193 pages
...most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. . . . With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. For in a warm climate, no man...
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Richard M. Weaver, 1910-1963: A Life of the Mind

Fred Douglas Young - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 244 pages
...most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... This quality is the germ of all education in him. . . . The parent storms, the child looks on,...
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Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William ...

Barbara Ladd - Social Science - 1997 - 228 pages
...most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."...
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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction

Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do...
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America's Nine Greatest Presidents

Frank P. King - Political Science - 1997 - 260 pages
...most boisterous passion, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.""...
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The Jefferson Image in the American Mind

Merrill D. Peterson - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 572 pages
...most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do...
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Classical Readings in Culture and Civilization

Stephen Mennell, John F. Rundell - History - 1998 - 260 pages
...most hoisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading suhmissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do...
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