 There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies, which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 841857Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where thia is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1806 - 426 pages
...contribute to the same end. " Where slavery" (says a great judge of human nature) " is established in any part of the " world, those who are free, are...most " proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom w is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of " rank and privilege. JNot seeing there that, free"... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1807 - 646 pages
...contribute to the same end. " Where slavery" ( says a great judge of human nature) " is established in " anv part of the world, those who are free are " by far the most proud andjealou., of their free" dom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoy-? " ment, but a kind of rank and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Orators - 1810 - 612 pages
...haughty than in those to the northtv-aid. It is, that in Virginia and the Carolinas, thej have a wst multitude of slaves. Where this Is the case in any part of the world, those who are free', are by faf the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedoms is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas, they have a vast multitude...case in any part of the world, those who are free, arc by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...original and native difference which must end in national struggle. " In Virginia and the Carolina:), they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free_, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom to them is not only an enjoyment,... | |
 | England - 1824 - 758 pages
...out. " An eminent political writer, speaking of the British colonists, says,— " ' Masters of slaves are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them, not only an enjoy• BrougUv.m'n Colonial Policy, vol. II. p. 50?. ment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 636 pages
...contribute to the same end. " Where slavery," says a great judge of human nature, " is established in " any part of the world, those who are free are " by far the most proud and jealous of their free" dom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoy" ment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not " seeing... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas, they have a vast multitude...those who are free, are by far the most proud and jetlous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolina*, they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is...those who are free, are by far the most proud and jejlous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a feind of rank and privilege.... | |
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