| Jonathan Arac, Harriet Ritvo - 1995 - 324 pagine
...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...cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. 35 Slavery was its own retribution, then, as it enforced mimesis within the family, as it "stamped"... | |
| Joshua Mitchell - 1999 - 292 pagine
...education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. ... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the slaves something should be said. Unlike Montesquieu, for whom Negroes were not human beings (Spirit... | |
| Conor Cruise O'Brien - 1996 - 390 pagine
...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...peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman... | |
| William Dusinberre - 1996 - 571 pagine
..."the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism" toward the slaves; and the white child "thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny,...peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."146 If the system thus affected the masters, may... | |
| Conor Cruise O'Brien - 1996 - 404 pagine
...the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. . . . The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments...the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but... | |
| Conor Cruise O'Brien - 1996 - 390 pagine
...the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. . . . The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments...the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, edu-cated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but... | |
| Edwin S. Gaustad - 1996 - 268 pagine
...child. The slave-owning parent, more often than not, behaved like a tyrant toward his or her slave. "The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circles of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions," Jefferson wrote in the Notes. The... | |
| Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - 1997 - 608 pagine
...generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wraths, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot... | |
| David Grimsted - 1998 - 392 pagine
...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 lineaments...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... | |
| James Oakes - 1998 - 276 pagine
...pan, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments...the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot... | |
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