 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...which I with aH deference thought that lie discovered " a zeal without 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 Indies." His violent prejudice against... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 712 Seiten
...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 - 676 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 Seiten
...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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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 Indies. 
