 | Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 1836 - 260 pages
...almost amount to fanaticism. It is certain no man in modern times has obtained such an influence-over a mass of ignorant people, as General Toussaint possesses over his brethren of St. Domingo. He is endowed with a prodigious memory. He is agood father and a good husband. " Toussaint... | |
 | Harvey Newcomb - African American public worship - 1837 - 120 pages
...possesses of never reposing, the facility with which he resumes the affairs of the cabinet, after the most tiresome excursions, of answering daily a hundred...render him so superior to all those around him, that respect and submission are in most individuals carried to extremes. It is certain that no man, in the... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...living without repose, — the facility with which he resumes the affairs of the cabinet, after the most tiresome excursions, — of answering daily a...five secretaries — render him so superior to all around him, that their respect and submission almost amount to fanaticism. It is certain no man in... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...living without repose, — the facility with which he resumes the affairs of the cabinet, after the most tiresome excursions, — of answering daily a...five secretaries — render him so superior to all around him, that their respect and submission almost amount to fanaticism. It is certain no man in... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 160 pages
...him, that their respect and submission almost amount to fanaticism. It is certain no man in modern times has obtained such an influence over a mass of ignorant people, as General Toussamt possesses over his brethren of St. Dommgo. He is endowed with a prodigious memory. He is a... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Slavery - 1843 - 598 pages
...living without repose,— the faeility with which he resumes the affairs of the cabinet, after the most tiresome excursions, — of answering daily a...five secretaries — render him so superior to all around him, that their respect and submission almost amount to fanatieism. It is certain no man in... | |
 | Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...living without repose, — the faeility with which he resumes the affairs of the cabinet, after the most tiresome excursions, — of answering daily a...hundred letters, — and of habitually tiring five seeretarics — render him so superior to all around him, that their respect and submission almost... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1863 - 320 pages
...possesses, of never reposing, the facility with which he resumes the affairs of the cabinet after the most tiresome excursions, of answering daily a hundred...is certain that no man, in the present times, has possessed such an influence aver a mass of people as General Toussaint possesses over his brethren... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 313 pages
...possesses, of never reposing, the facility with which he resumes the affairs of the cabinet after the most tiresome excursions, of answering daily a hundred..."around him, that their respect and submission are ia most individuals carried even to fanaticism. It is certain that no man, in the present times, has... | |
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His great sobriety, — the power of living without repose, — the facility with which he resumes the affairs of the cabinet, after the most tiresome excursions, — of answering daily a hundred letters, — and of habitually tiring five secretaries... 