| 1851 - 568 Seiten
...upon them also has fallen the heaviest part of the penalty. Jefferson, thinking of the whites, said, " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just." His apprehensions of the retributions of heaven are, day by day, blackening into more substantial realities.... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1822 - 140 Seiten
...19. Without offering an opinion on the propriety of the expression of Mr. Jefferson, I must add, that I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice is ever active and continually executing its commission ! The truth of this may be easily recognised... | |
| Adam Hodgson - 1823 - 354 Seiten
...untied, it will be 181 cut. " I tremble for my country," said the late President, Mr. Jefferson ; " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just." And who that views with a dispassionate eye the state of our West India colonies, and of the slaveholding... | |
| William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 530 Seiten
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of younger slaves, gives a loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped with its odious peculiarities. The man must indeed be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals uhdepraved... | |
| 1824 - 890 Seiten
...not untied, it will lie cut. " I tremble for my country," said the late President, Mr. Jefterson ; " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just." And who that views with a dispassionate eye the state of our West India colonies, and of the slaveholding... | |
| 1824 - 884 Seiten
...not untied, it will be cut. "I tremble for my country," said the late President, Mr. Jefferson ; " I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just." And who that views with a dispassionate eye the state of our West India colonies, and of the slaveholding... | |
| 1826 - 582 Seiten
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in a smaller circle of slaves, gives a loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised...odious peculiarities." " I tremble for my country when 1 reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep for ever." And speaking of the probability,... | |
| 1824 - 414 Seiten
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the. worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy, who can retain his morals and manners 'uudepraved... | |
| 1826 - 870 Seiten
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the 'circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions ; and, thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.' ' — Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, pp. 270, 271, London edition.... | |
| 1825 - 798 Seiten
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions ; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his morals and manners undtpraved... | |
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