 | Montesquieu - 1766 - Liczba stron: 530
...than flaves. Thefe creatures are all over black, and with fuch a flat nofe, that they can fcarcely be pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wife Being, Ihould place a foul, efpecially a good foul, in fuch a black ugly body. It is fo natural... | |
 | 1799 - Liczba stron: 334
...foul ; A fenfe of worth, a confcience of defert, A high, unbroken haughtinefs of heart j " fcarcely be pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, " who is a wife Being, fhould place a foul, efpecially a good " foul, in fuch a black, xigly body." When Montefquisu... | |
 | Rachel Fanny Antonina Lee - 1809 - Liczba stron: 394
...himself : " Sugar would be too dear, if the plant* ; which produce it were cultivated by any but slaves; it is . hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise...place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black and ugly body." " The colour of the skin may be determined by that of the .bair, which, among the Egyptians... | |
 | 1817 - Liczba stron: 482
...Baron Montesquieu said he would vindicate the system,—such as, that ' these creatures (B. xv. c. 5.) are all over black, and with such a flat nose, that they can scarcely be pitied,' and that ' it is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise Being, should place a soul, especially... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1823 - Liczba stron: 810
...Garcilasso de la Vega. t Labat's new Voyage to the isles of America, vol. 4. p. 114, in 1752, 12mo. These creatures are all over black, and with such...especially a good soul, in such a black, ugly body. It is so natural to look upon colour, as the criterion of human nature, that the Asiatics, among whom... | |
 | 1853 - Liczba stron: 704
...i^v\ov, a mere "live instrument;" and appears, also, to hold with Montesquieu, of the " Nigger," that " these creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose that they are scarcely to be pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise being, should place... | |
 | Cassius Marcellus Clay - 1848 - Liczba stron: 550
...fellow-men," breaks out into the most exquisite, and scathing irony : " It is hardly to be supposed that God, who is a wise being, should place a soul,...especially a good soul, in such a black, ugly body." " It is impossible to suppose that these creatures are men, because, allowing them to be men. a suspicion... | |
 | William Hosmer - 1852 - Liczba stron: 206
...Sugar would be too dear, if the plants which produce it were cultivated by any other than slaves. " These creatures are all over black, and with such...especially a good soul, in such a black, ugly body. " It is so natural to look upon color as the criterion of human nature, that the Asiatics, among whom... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1853 - Liczba stron: 702
...Nigger," that " these creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose that they are scarcely to he pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, who...especially a good soul, in such a black ugly body." Horace says that Homer sometimes sleeps, and I think you will agree with me, that even Montesquieu... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1853 - Liczba stron: 704
...tfjHJjv\ov, a mere "live instrument;" and appears, also, to hold with Montesquieu, of the " Nigger," that " these creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose that they are scarcely to be pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise being, should place... | |
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The Europeans, having extirpated the Americans, were obliged to make slaves of the Africans, for clearing such vast tracts of land. Sugar would be too dear if the plants which produce it were cultivated by any other than slaves. These creatures are all... 
