| James Boswell - 1843 - Liczba stron: 588
...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 - Liczba stron: 510
...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 - Liczba stron: 442
...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 - Liczba stron: 352
...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 - Liczba stron: 676
...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 - Liczba stron: 650
...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 - Liczba stron: 712
...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 - Liczba stron: 666
...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 - Liczba stron: 46
...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 - Liczba stron: 426
...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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