 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 páginas
...knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here '.- to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West...Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelpi for liberty among the drivers of negroes? " and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkesa he asked,... | |
 | Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - 1846 - 510 páginas
...professors. Dr. Johnson was not far out of the way when he contemptuously asked in his Taxation No Tyranny, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes ? " He applied this test to our Revolutionary Fathers, and showed them to be wanting in the truest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 442 páginas
...knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here 's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West...Tyranny," he says, " How is it that we hear the loudest yelp* for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes he asked,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1863 - 352 páginas
...deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here's...insurrection of the negroes 'in the West Indies." Hi« violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 676 páginas
...appeared whenever there was an opportunity." * * * " Upon an occasion, when in company with several very grave men at Oxford, his toast was : ' Here's...next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies !' I, with all due deference, thought that he discovered a zeal without knowledge." This Tfas surely... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 650 páginas
...appeared whenever there was an opportunity." * * * " Upon an occasion, when in company with several very grave men at Oxford, his toast was : * Here's...next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies !' I, with all due deference, thought that he discovered a zeal without knowledge." This was surely... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 712 páginas
...appeared whenever there was an opportunity." * * * " Upon an occasion, when in company with several very grave men at Oxford, his toast was : ' Here's...next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies !' I, with all due deference, thought that he discovered a zeal without knowledge." This was surely... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 666 páginas
...appeared whenever there was an opportunity." * * * " Upon an occasion, when in company with several very grave men at Oxford, his toast was : ' Here's...next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies !' I, with all due deference, thought that he discovered a zeal without knowledge." This was surely... | |
 | Johnson Society - 1921 - 46 páginas
...When the Americans began to complain of being taxed by the British Parliament, he exclaimed, " How is that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" and he did not spare the planters in our West Indian islands. But perhaps the most touching story of JohnBon's... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 páginas
...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... | |
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