The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839

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Yale University Press, 1926 - 432 страница

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Страница 52 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field...
Страница 21 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Страница 405 - A Treatise on the Law of Libel and the Liberty of the Press; Showing the Origin, Use, and Abuse of the Law of Libel: With Copious Notes and References to Authorities in Great Britain and the United States: As Applicable to Individuals and to Political and Ecclesiastical Bodies and Principles.
Страница 287 - inferior variety of the human species; and not capable of the same improvement as the whites." Dr. SC Cartwright of the University of Louisiana insisted that the capacities of the Negro adult for learning were equal to those of a white infant; and the Negro could properly perform certain physiological functions only when under the control of white men. Because of the Negro's inferiority...
Страница 307 - Is it worth our while to continue this union of states, where the north demand to be our masters, and we are required to be their tributaries...
Страница 410 - An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper of Northumberland on a Charge of Libel Against the President of the United States; Taken in Short Hand, with a Preface, Notes, and Appendix, by Thomas Cooper (Philadelphia, John Bioren, printer, 1800).
Страница 352 - I am not yet conquered, and expect yet to bivouac on the field of Battle. I have no objection to a moral governor of the universe, but how came he in that character to create the Priesthood ? Moral ! You might as well apply squareness to virtue. I wish I knew how to account for moral and physical evil, and then I should be able to account for malaria, dyspepsia, yellow fever, the plague, cholera, rattlesnakes, mosquitoes and faquirs of all classes and orders, asiatic and european, papist and protestant.
Страница 124 - But in the present state of affairs, the press is open to those who will praise, while the threats of the law hang over those who blame the conduct of the men in power.
Страница 402 - AN APPEAL to the Government and Congress of the United States, against the Depredations committed by American Privateers, on the Commerce of Nations at peace with us. By an American Citizen.
Страница 198 - ... Judge Cooper, of Pennsylvania, a political refugee with Dr. Priestley from the fires and mobs of Birmingham. He is one of the ablest men in America, and that in several branches of science. The law opinion which he mentions I have received, and a more luminous one has not been seen. The best pieces on political economy which have been written in this country were by Cooper.

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