 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 492 pages
...exclusively to Spaniards; and although Americans were equally called to them by the laws, they were appointed only in rare instances, and even then, not...extended this tyranny even to the mind, and forbade the cultivation and exercise of those faculties which, least of all, it might be thought, ought to be subjected... | |
 | bernard moses, ph.d., ll.d. - 1908 - 380 pages
...inhabitants of European descent were deprived of the privilege of having a part in governing themselves, but "the moral degradation consequent upon the absence...that any merit could lead to useful distinction." l But there were some persons who saw clearly that even the despised creole, using all available opportunities... | |
 | Bernard Moses - 1908 - 380 pages
...inhabitants of European descent were deprived of the privilege of having a part in governing themselves, but "the moral degradation consequent upon the absence...that any merit could lead to useful distinction." 1 But there were some persons who saw clearly that even the despised creole, using all available opportunities... | |
 | Francis Loraine Petre - 1910 - 524 pages
...Eve of Emancipation," p. 101. z Hall's "Travels" (Constable's Miscillany, Edinburgh, 1826), rol. ii. generous exertion, and the utter hopelessness that any merit could lead to useful distinction." Yet many of them, especially those educated partially in Europe, were well suited for responsible employment... | |
 | Francis Loraine Petre - 1910 - 516 pages
...Emancipation," p. 101. 2 Hill's "Travels" (Constable's Miscellany, Edinburgh, 1826), vol. ii. p. 23generous exertion, and the utter hopelessness that any merit could lead to useful distinction." Yet many of them, especially those educated partially in Europe, were well suited for responsible employment... | |
 | Bernard Moses - 1914 - 466 pages
...of European descent were deprived of the privilege of having a part in governing themselves, but " the moral degradation consequent upon the absence...that any merit could lead to useful distinction." l But there were some persons who saw clearly that even the despised creole, using all available opportunities... | |
 | Bernard Moses - 1914 - 464 pages
...of European descent were deprived of the privilege of having a part in governing themselves, but " the moral degradation consequent upon the absence...that any merit could lead to useful distinction." 1 But there were some persons who saw clearly that even the despised creole, using all available opportunities... | |
 | Bernard Moses - 1914 - 462 pages
...of European descent were deprived of the privilege of having a part in governing themselves, but " the moral degradation consequent upon the absence...that any merit could lead to useful distinction." l But there were some persons who saw clearly that even the despised creole, using all available opportunities... | |
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... of the colonies. But they lacked the influence necessary to obtain these positions. The gravest evil resulting from this exclusion of Americans was not merely that the native inhabitants of European descent were deprived of the privilege of having... 