 | Horace Mann - 1891 - 608 Seiten
...doing better than any one has done hitherto. A hundred and seventy years ago, John Locke wrote : " Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man,...the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it." Yet think... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 434 Seiten
...Locke and Samuel Johnson, and two Scotchmen, Adam Smith and David Hume. John Locke portrayed Slavery as "so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so directly...the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it."8 Samuel... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 404 Seiten
...SlaveMaster should know, as — " The state of war continued between a lawful conqueror and a captive." " So directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that '/ is hardly to be conl Notes on Virginia, Query XVHL ce-ived that an Englishman, MUCH LESS A GENTLEMAN,... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1904 - 428 Seiten
...and his captive;" * * * '' so opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that't is hardly to be conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it." Having the least democratic government, South Carolina was, almost from the first, distinguished as... | |
 | 1860 - 326 Seiten
...conqueror and his captive. * * * So opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that 'tit hardly to be conceived that an Englishman, MUCH LESS A GENTLEMAN, should plead for it." Then comes Adam Smith, the founder of the science of political economy, who, in his work on Morals,... | |
 | 1913 - 274 Seiten
...e»59I tate of man, and so directly opposed to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived that an " Englishman," much less a " gentleman," should plead for it. And truly I should have taken this, as any other treatise which would persuade all men that they are... | |
 | John Locke - 1967 - 548 Seiten
...the Contents. BOOK I. CHAP. I. § i . /"* Lavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and ^v so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage...hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentltman, should plead for't. And truly, " I should have taken Sr. Rt: Filmer's Patriarcha as any... | |
 | John Locke - 1947 - 356 Seiten
...Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer and his Followers are detected and overthrown CHAPTER I 1. SLAVERY is so vile and miserable an estate of man,...the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it. And truly... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 1990 - 344 Seiten
...Treatises begin with a ringing appeal to liberty, understood as the noble birthright of English gentlemen: "Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man,...an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't" (TT I 1). In the rest of the work we hear echoes, from time to time, of these stirring notes... | |
 | John Locke - 1988 - 482 Seiten
...the Dissolution of Governments 406 The End of the Contents. 140 BOOK I. CHAP. I. § 1. S~*i Lavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so...an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't. And truly, I should have taken Sr. Rt: Filmer's Patriarcha as any other 5 Treatise, which would... | |
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it. 
