 | Paul Finkelman - History - 316 pages
...lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised...can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.69 Jefferson's analysis is on target here, as far as it goes. As David Brion Davis suggests,... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - African Americans in literature - 2001 - 314 pages
...nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiatities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. (Notes on the State of l/irginia, 162) Poe goes one obvious step further, tracing the roots of white... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - History - 2002 - 289 pages
...looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated,...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." He knew slavery was wrong and that he was wrong in profiting from the institution, but apparently could... | |
 | Paul C. Metcalf - History - 2002 - 290 pages
...the 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...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus... | |
 | Seymour Bernard Sarason - Education - 2002 - 305 pages
...the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded who, permitting one half the citizens to trample... | |
 | John T. Noonan - History - 2002 - 236 pages
...imitate it, for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him . . . The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." Written with sexual undercurrents and the tone of self-examination, this passage was followed by this... | |
 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - History - 2002 - 562 pages
...which should promote love, temperance, and justice. Jefferson emphasized the gravity of this point: "The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." He next asserted that statesmen who permit "one half of the citizens ... to trample on the rights of... | |
 | Gary Hart - Political Science - 2002 - 305 pages
...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."109 "Jefferson consistently denounced the institution of slavery, calling it an 'abominable... | |
 | Milton Meltzer - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 156 pages
...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this and learn to imitate it ... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. As much as Virginia was based on slavery, so was it based on racial prejudice. Masters always see their... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 pages
...one part, and degrading submission on the other; our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus... | |
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The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by... 
