 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - Liczba stron: 296
...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.' His fi violent prejudice against our West Indian and American v settlers appeared whenever there was an... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - Liczba stron: 366
...Johnson's talent for history, his political essays should not be forgotten, with their scornful insight : " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " And his latest work is historical : the Lives of the Poets. All these things are a long way from the moral... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - Liczba stron: 368
...Johnson's talent for history, his political essays should not be forgotten, with their scornful insight : " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " And his latest work is historical : the Lives of the Poets. All these things are a long way from the moral... | |
 | 1926 - Liczba stron: 720
...and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." "How is it," he asked again, "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes? " That was indeed a fairer thrust 1 "I am willing to love all mankind," the doctor observed in the... | |
 | William Archer - 1927 - Liczba stron: 342
...the pamphlet and looks for the passage.) Ah, here it is : " If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " MRS. LEWIS. " Drivers of negroes ", indeed ! As if our faithful, devoted black servants required... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - 1927 - Liczba stron: 908
...We have been too quick to forget the horrors which caused Samuel Johnson to give his famous toast: "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies" (Goldwin Smith, '/'//• United Kingdom, voL n. i,in,4. Corruption, thus initiated in one part of public... | |
 | Marcus Wood - 2003 - Liczba stron: 772
...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...next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.' Boswell remained a staunch slavery apologist. In this poem he bizarrely combines a love poem to a young... | |
 | Michał Rozbicki - 1998 - Liczba stron: 240
...slavery as a metaphor for British tyranny. "If slavery be thus fatally contagious," ran the argument, "how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?" Perhaps, it was suggested, the Revolutionary leaders should decide "that the slaves should be set free,... | |
 | Forrest Church - 2003 - Liczba stron: 196
...calls for American rights. From England, the literary lion Samuel Johnson posed the obvious question: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Jefferson, indicted by his own soaring rhetoric, might better be described as schizophrenic than hypocritical... | |
 | Leslie M. Harris - 2004 - Liczba stron: 393
...British powerful rhetorical and military weapons against them during the war. Samuel Johnson chided, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" More dangerous to the American cause were the British offers of freedom to slaves. In 1775, Lord Dunmore,... | |
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