| 1887 - 810 str.
...continuation by Armstrong, p. 405. Dr. Johnson's rather insolent question was not altogether unwarranted : " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes ? " deemed and considered as servants for life, or slaves ; and that all servitude for life, or slavery... | |
| James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 str.
...men at Oxford, his toast was, ' Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies4.' His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity5. Towards ' See /to/, June 12, 1784. House to defend their cause.' Wal' See ante, p. 86.... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 522 str.
...tyrannically governed. The man who, ' in company with some very grave men at Oxford, gave as his toast, "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies"' (post, iii. 200), was not likely to condemn insurrections in general. The key to his feelings is found... | |
| James Boswell - 1888 - 544 str.
...deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West-Indies." His violent prejudice against our West-Indian and American settlers appeared whenever... | |
| 1888 - 786 str.
...continuation by Armstrong, p. 405. Dr. Johnson's rather insolent question was not altogether unwarranted : " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes ? " deemed and considered as servants for life, or slaves ; and that all servitude for life, or slavery... | |
| David Hume - 1888 - 486 str.
...at the slave-trade, but at British Commerce. It was of .men such as these that Johnson said : — ' How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?' Boswell's Johnson, iii. 201. At the same meeting it was resolved that there should be no exportation... | |
| 1888 - 1004 str.
...islands of America." Once, "in company with some very grave men at Oxford, he gave as his toast, ' Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.'" In this very pamphlet he skilfully replies to the argument that the subjugation of America would have... | |
| James Boswell - 1890 - 568 str.
...deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with ime. Let him contrive to have as Tyranny,'1 he says, " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes... | |
| George Bancroft - 1896 - 486 str.
...slaves." Virginia and the Carolinas had shown impatience of oppression. " How is it," asked Johnson, " that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? The slaves should be set free ; they may be more grateful and honest than their masters," Lord North... | |
| Goldwin Smith - 1899 - 516 str.
...as " a place of great wealth and dreadful wickedness, a den of tyrants and a dungeon of slaves." " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies ! " was the toast which this high Tory gave to a party in high Tory Oxford. Flogging and branding were... | |
| |