... former (slaveholder though he was) seemed to possess some regard for honor, some reverence for justice, and some respect for humanity. The latter seemed totally insensible to all such sentiments. Mr. Freeland had many of the faults peculiar to slaveholders,... Once a Week - Página 27editado por - 1870Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Joseph Donaldson - 1824 - 244 páginas
...mouse trap, so clownish, so awkward, and so stupid; and so he remained, and got promoted in his turn; but I must do him the justice to say that he was (what some others equally stupid were not) harmless. • A method by which many a numskull acquires... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1871 - 344 páginas
...identify through its engraved crest ; or else some thief or another would make a plant on me to rob me. .1 saw how clumsily the matter was done, and I began...then it gives me occupation and life, sir — life." " You live in a fashionable quarter, Mr. Forster. Did I not hear you say Queen Anne-street ?" " Yes,... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1872 - 486 páginas
...upon them, and people wondered. Ah ! you don't know how little cleverness there is in the world. It 's beat out thin, like gold leaf, sir, — a very little...then it gives me occupation and life, sir — life." " You live in a fashionable quarter, Mr Forster. Did I not hear you say Queen Anne Street ? " " Yes,... | |
| Edward Payson Roe - 1880 - 478 páginas
...more like you would bring the millennium. " Gilbert Hearn was dreadfully taken aback by the letter ; but I must do him the justice to say that he was much touched by it too, for he called me again into the parlor, and I saw that he was much moved. He... | |
| Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo - 1916 - 624 páginas
...His Majesty had agreed to the subsidy asked by mr Flemming, which gave him a great deal of pleasure; but I must do him the justice to say that he was downright angry, when he heard that the court of Saxony was so unreasonable, as to make any difficulty... | |
| Frederick Douglass - 1982 - 164 páginas
...Freeland had many of the faults peculiar to slaveholders, such as being very passionate and fretful; but I must do him the justice to say, that he was exceedingly free from those degrading vices to which Mr. Covey was constantly addicted. The one was... | |
| Alan Gallay - 1994 - 440 páginas
...Freeland had many of the faults peculiar to slaveholders, such as being very passionate and fretful; but I must do him the justice to say, that he was exceedingly free from those degrading vices to which Mr. Covey was constantly addicted. The one was... | |
| Frederick Douglass - 1994 - 1226 páginas
...Freeland had many of the faults peculiar to slaveholders, such as being very passionate and fretful; but I must do him the justice to say, that he was exceedingly free from those degrading vices to which Mr. Covey was constantly addicted. The one was... | |
| Milton C. Sernett - 1999 - 612 páginas
...Freeland had many of the faults peculiar to slaveholders, such as being very passionate and fretful; but I must do him the justice to say, that he was exceedingly free from those degrading vices to which Mr. Covey was constantly addicted. The one was... | |
| William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - 2000 - 1066 páginas
...Freeland had many of the faults peculiar to slaveholders, such as being very passionate and fretful; but I must do him the justice to say, that he was exceedingly free from those degrading vices to which Mr. Covey was constantly addicted. The one was... | |
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