 His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 289by Samuel Johnson - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 294 pages
...likely to condemn insurrection in general. The key to his feelings is found in bis indignant cry, ' How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' He hated slavery as perhaps no man of his time hated it. In 1756, he described Jamaica as a ' place... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny, he says, ' that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, 1 ' and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes, he asked, ' Where did Beckf ord and Trecothick learn English... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 pages
...the chains of their slave. To him at least could never be applied Doctor Johnson's taunting words : " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ?" The views of Washington on this great question are best shown at the close of the Revolutionary... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1909 - 32 pages
...Johnson's talent for history, his political essays should not be forgotten, with their scornful insight : ' how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' And his latest work is historical: the Lives of the Poets. All these things are a long way from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ?" and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes he asked. " Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...natural that he should hate war, especially wars of aggression and conquest. ' How is it,' he cried ; ' how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' * and ' in company with some very grave men at Oxford, he gave as his toast, " Here's to the next... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 590 pages
...Taxation no Tyranny, his 'answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress,' he asks 'how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' The prejudice in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is of a different kind, and never... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - 346 pages
...Columbus found at last reception and employment."1 This was not pure Toryism. " How is it," he asked, " that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " 2 And once " when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, ' Here's to the... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 pages
...specially enraged him was that the cry of "liberty" should be raised by slaveowners. "How is it" he asked "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Nearly fifty years before the abolition of slavery was first discussed in Parliament, Johnson had maintained... | |
 | 588 pages
...Taxation no Tyranny, his 'answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress,' he asks 'how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' The prejudice in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is of a different kind, and never... | |
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