| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 Seiten
...bondage, and retard the moment of delivery to this oppressed description of men. What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...motives whose power supported him through his trial, jmd inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is Traught with more misery, than ages of... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 Seiten
...bondage, and retard the moment of delivery to this oppressed description of men. What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his owu liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 Seiten
...the Slave Bill, in Virginia, without the adoption of his concerted amendment. " What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...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, than... | |
| James Stuart - 1833 - 632 Seiten
...countrymen in maintaining slavery, are thus given in a communication to one of his friends : — " What an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hou? of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But... | |
| James Stuart - 1833 - 568 Seiten
...countrymen in maintaining slavery, are thus given in a communication to one of his friends : — " What an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 Seiten
...of the Slave Bill in Virginia, without the adoption of his concerted amendment. ' What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imTHOMAS JEFFERSON. prisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next... | |
| William Thomas - 1835 - 200 Seiten
...a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is " man ! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, and imprisonment, " and death itself, in vindication of...the next " moment be deaf to all those motives whose powers supported " him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-men a bondage, " one hour of which... | |
| William Thomas - 1835 - 208 Seiten
...of the slaves, he expresses his feelings in the following vehement language:— " What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is " man ! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, and imprisonment, " and death itself, in vindication of Ms own liberty, and the next " moment be deaf... | |
| La Roy Sunderland - 1836 - 194 Seiten
...once suffered, and from which they fought and bled to be free ? Well has Jefferson exclaimed, — " What an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which ha rose... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1829 - 554 Seiten
...bondage, and retard the moment of delivery to this oppressed description of men. What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more miser}', than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. But we must await, with patience,... | |
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