They are more ardent after their female; but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient. Natural History of the Negro Race - Page 31by Julien-Joseph Virey - 1837 - 162 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1788 - 714 pages
...delicate mixture of fentiment and fenfation. Their griefs are tranfient. Thofe numberlefs affli&ions, which render it doubtful whether heaven has given life to us in mercy or in wrath, are lefs felt, and fooner forgotten with them. In general, their exiflence appeari to participate more... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 pages
...a tender delicate mixture of fentiment and fenfation. Their griefs are tranfient. Thofe numberlefs afflictions, which render it doubtful whether heaven has given life to us in mercy or in wrath, are lefs felt, and fooner forgotten with them. In general, their exiftence appears to participate more... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 296 pages
...They are more ardent after their female : but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation....doubtful whether heaven has given life to us in mercy or ia wrath, are less felt, and sooner for* Crawford. 13 gotten with them. In general, their existence... | |
| Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - 1835 - 918 pages
...slightest amusements to sit up till midnight, knowing that he must be out by the first dawn of the morning. Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions...mercy or in wrath, are less felt and sooner forgotten by them. In general their existence appears to participate more of sensation than of reflection."-)... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 360 pages
...figure and hair, there are other physical distinctions proving a difference of race. Their griefs aie transient. Those numberless afflictions which render...mercy or in wrath, are less felt and sooner forgotten by them. In general their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection." •... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 632 pages
...seems with them to be more an earer desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sen^atinn. Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions....it doubtful whether heaven has given life to us in me:ey or in wrath, are less felt, and sooner forgotten with them. In general, their existence appears... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 538 pages
...They are more ardent after their female ; but love seems with them to be more an eager desire than a tender, delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation....in wrath, are less felt and sooner forgotten with them."1 A careful study of the slaves of the generation before the civil war must lead to the same... | |
| Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1905 - 596 pages
...ardent [than white men] after their females, but love seems with them to be more an eager desire than a tender, delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation....wrath, are less felt and sooner forgotten with them." When the negro was made the subject of Northern commiseration and given the advantage of association... | |
| Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener - 1905 - 560 pages
...ardent [than white men] after their females, but love seems with them to be more an eager desire than a tender, delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation....wrath, are less felt and sooner forgotten with them." When the negro was made the subject of Northern commiseration and given the advantage of association... | |
| Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 504 pages
...to sleep of course.27 2* Ford edition of Jefferson's Writings, III, p. 244. 27 Ibid., Ill, p. 245. Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions,...in wrath, are less felt, and sooner forgotten with them.28 Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that... | |
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