 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...bondage, and retard the moment of delivery to this oppressed description of men. What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion... | |
 | 1844 - 454 pages
...of his countrymen in maintaining slavery, are thus given in a communication to one of his friends: ' What an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure...supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 486 pages
...bondage, and retard the moment of delivery to this oppressed description of men. What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure...supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...bondage, and retard the moment of delivery to this oppressed description of men. What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...motives whose power supported him through his trial, jmd inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is Traught with more misery, than ages of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...bondage, and retard the moment of delivery to this oppressed description of men. What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his owu liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...the Slave Bill, in Virginia, without the adoption of his concerted amendment. " What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...those motives whose power supported him through his trial,and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...adoption of his concerted amendment. " What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is manj who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment,...supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion... | |
 | Edward Gibbon Wakefield - Colonization - 1833 - 362 pages
...impossible to account" The writer of the declaration of American independence has also written — " What an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure...supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...countrymen in maintaining slavery, are thus given in a communication to one of his friends : — " What an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hou? of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 568 pages
...countrymen in maintaining slavery, are thus given in a communication to one of his friends : — " What an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can...supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose... | |
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his... 
