 He had always been very zealous against slavery in every form, in which I with all 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...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 230by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...drivers of negroes? ' 'sand '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." ' " As early as 1740 he maintained ' the natural right of negroes to liberty and independence.' ' An... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 548 pages
...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... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - Great Britain - 1911 - 326 pages
...whose whole-hearted devotion hardly admits that there were any spots on his literary sun, allows that ' his violent prejudice against our West Indian and...settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity.' What that prejudice was, we have Johnson's own words to show. ' In America there is little to be observed... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - United States - 1912 - 298 pages
...whose whole-hearted devotion hardly admits that there were any spots on his literary sun, allows that ' his violent prejudice against our West Indian and...settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity.' What that prejudice was, we have Johnson's own words to show. ' In America there is little to be observed... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - Authors, English 18th century Biography - 1920 - 248 pages
...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...conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny he says, ' How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' and in his conversation with... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - Authors, English 18th century Biography - 1920 - 246 pages
...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...conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny he says, ' How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' and in his conversation with... | |
 | William Cunningham - Christian sociology - 1920 - 122 pages
...moneyed men and their ways, and with all his regard for the established order once gave as a toast, ' Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.' * He complained that ' the laws of Jamaica afford a negro no redress. His colour is considered as sufficient... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - Africa - 1922 - 242 pages
...or qualification. ' Upon one occasion (says Boswell), 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 ".' Sterne, writing in 1766, is equally emphatic. Thus in a letter to Ignatius Sancho, an American... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...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 fi violent prejudice against our West Indian and American v settlers appeared whenever there was an... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - 1927 - 908 pages
...We have been too quick to forget the horrors which caused Samuel Johnson to give his famous toast: "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies" (Goldwin Smith, '/'//• United Kingdom, voL n. i,in,4. Corruption, thus initiated in one part of public... | |
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