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" These creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose that they can scarcely be pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise Being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black ugly body. "
The Spirit of Laws: Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron de ... - Page 352
by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1773
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The Beauties of English Writers: In Prose and Verse

English literature - 1799 - 334 pages
...a Pagan foul ; A fenfe of worth, a confcience of defert, A high, unbroken haughtinefs of heart j " fcarcely be pitied. It is hardly to be believed that...a foul, efpecially a good " foul, in fuch a black, xigly body." When Montefquisu wrote, the real fituation of the Negroes was little known. Later difcoveries...
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The spirit of laws. Transl. 1st Amer. ed, Volume 1

Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1802 - 378 pages
...extirpated the Americans, were obliged to make flaves of the Africans, for clearing fuch vaft trafts of land. Sugar would be too dear, if the plants which...place a foul, efpecially a good foul, in fuch a black and ugly body. It is fo natural to loqk upon color as the criterion of human nature, that the Afiatics,...
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The Balance, and Columbian Repository, Volume 3

Columbia County (N.Y.) - 1804 - 450 pages
...(Lves1 Thcfe creatures are all over black, and with fuch a flat nofe, that;hey can fcarcely be pitii'tl. It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wife being, fhould place a foul, f' ?cially a good foul, in fuch a black and y body. It is fo natural to look upon colour as <he criterion...
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The Tourist: A Literary and Anti-slavery Journal, Volume 1

Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...than slaves. " These creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose, that they can scarcely be pitied. " It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black ugly body. " The colour of...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 34

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1853 - 704 pages
...Nigger," that " these creatures are all over black, and with such a fiat nose that they are scarcely to be pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black ugly body." Horace says that...
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The Higher Law, in Its Relations to Civil Government: With Particular ...

William Hosmer - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1852 - 226 pages
...than slaves. " These creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose, that they can scarcely be pitied. " It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black, ugly body. " It is so natural...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 34

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1853 - 702 pages
...Nigger," that " these creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose that they are scarcely to he pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black ugly body." Horace says that...
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History of French Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - French literature - 1854 - 522 pages
...than slaves. These creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose, that they can scarcely be pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise Being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black ugly body. The colour of the...
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The Philosophy of History

J. W.. Gilbart - History - 1857 - 178 pages
...than slaves. " These creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose that they can scarcely be pitied. " It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black, ugly body. " It is impossible...
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The Congregational Review, Volume 2

Congregationalism - 1862 - 692 pages
...than slaves. These creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose, that they can scarcely be pitied. It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise Being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black, ugly body. The color of the...
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