America today with regard to slavery, but ventures, or is driven, to make some such desperate answer as the following, while professing to speak absolutely, and as a private man - from which what new and singular code of social duties might be inferred?... The Works of Daniel Webster ... - Page 304by Daniel Webster - 1853Full view - About this book
| Oliver Cromwell Gardiner - Campaign literature - 1848 - 356 pages
...the States in which it did exist, was a matter of State regulation exclusively, and that Congress had not the least power over it, or right to interfere...other cause, have nothing whatever to do with it. They have never received any encouragement from me, and they never will. In my opinion, they have done... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Civil disobedience - 1866 - 314 pages
...from which what new and singular code of Bocial duties might be inferred ? " The manner," says he, " in which the governments of those States where slavery...other cause, have nothing whatever to do with it. They have never received any encouragement from me, and they never will." * They who know of no purer... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Slavery - 1890 - 158 pages
...— from which what new and singular code of social duties might be inferred? "The manner/' says he, "in which the governments of those States where slavery...constituents, to the general laws of propriety, humanity, aud justice, and to God. Associations formed elsewhere, springing1 from a feeling of humanity, or any... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Conduct of life - 1901 - 324 pages
...from which what new and singular code of social duties might be inferred ? " The manner," says he, "in which the governments of those States where slavery...any other cause, have nothing whatever to do with it They have never received any encouragement from me, and they never will" They who know of no purer... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pages
...— from which what new and singular code of social duties might be inferred? "The manner," says he, "in which the governments of those States where slavery...other cause, have nothing whatever to do with it. They have never received any encouragement from me, and they never will."1 1 These extracts have been... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 pages
...— from which what new and singular code of social duties might be inferred? "The manner," says he, "in which the governments of those States where slavery...other cause, have nothing whatever to do with it. They have never received any encouragement from me, and they never will."1 1 These extracts have been... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pages
...— from which what new and singular code of social duties might be inferred? "The manner," says he, "in which the governments of those States where slavery...regulate it is for their own consideration, under their responsir bility to their constituents, to the general laws of propriety, humanity, and justice, and... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 pages
...— from which wEafTnew and singular code of social duties might be inferred? "The manner," says he, "in which the governments of those States where slavery...constituents, to the general laws of propriety, humanity, and |ustice, and to God. Associations formed elsewhere, springing from a feeling of humanity, or any other... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 560 pages
...from which what new and singular code of social duties might be inferred ? " The manner," says he, " in which the governments of those States where slavery...other cause, have nothing whatever to do with it. They have never received any encouragement from me, and they never will." 1 They who know of no purer... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...— from which what new and singular code of social duties might be inferred? "The manner," says he, "in which the governments of those States where slavery...other cause, have nothing whatever to do with it. They have never received any encouragement from me, and they never will."' They who know of no purer... | |
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