 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...spirit, attached to liberty than those of the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealthii; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; -ml such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such, a people he h.ughtinrss... | |
 | Scotland - 1824 - 792 pages
...the exterior of servitude, liberty looks among them like something that is more noble and liberal. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were...such, in our days, were the Poles ; and such will ever be, all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves. In them, haughtiness combines with the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached "to liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths;...days, were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slave* who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination, combined with... | |
 | Alexander Barclay - Black people - 1827 - 596 pages
...exterior of ser' vitude, liberty looks among them like something ' that is more noble and liberal. Such were all ' the ancient commonwealths ; such were...masters of slaves, ' who are not slaves themselves. In them haughti' ness combines with the spirit of freedom, forti' fies it, and renders it invincible.'... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Canada - 1830 - 360 pages
...much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths;...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." * It is obvious, however, that this aristocratic spirit of independence can, only under accidental... | |
 | Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 362 pages
...much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached fo liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." * It is obvious, however, that this aristocratic spirit of independence can, only under accidental... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths;...days, were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slave* who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination, combined with... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. " Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1034 pages
...much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to Liberty, than those to the Northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths;...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible." His eloquent observation on the general taste for legal studies which predominated in America, is true... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothick ancestors; such in our days were the Poles ; and such...freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible. Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards... | |
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The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such... 
