 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1788 - 714 pages
...aftonim you with ftrokes of the moft fublime oratory ; fuch as prove their reafon and fentiment ftrong, their imagination glowing . and elevated. But never yet could I find that a Black had uttered * thought above the level of plain narration ; never fee even an el«mentary trait of painting or fculpture.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...their' eyes samples of the best works from abroad--.*; The Indians, with no advantage of this kindy will often carve figures on their pipes not destitute...never saw even an elementary trait of painting or sculptare. In.mtisic they are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for txme and... | |
 | Samuel Stanhope Smith - Anthropology - 1810 - 446 pages
...a considerable degree, and have had before their eyes samples of the best works from abroad. Never could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration. Misery, he continues, is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry — Among the blacks... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries where the arts and sciences are cultivated to a considerable...never saw even an elementary trait of painting or sculp146 ture. In music they are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for tune... | |
 | 842 pages
...strokes of the sublime oratory, such as prove their reason and sentiment strong : their imagination is glowing and elevated ; but never yet could I find that a black had ottered a thought above the level of a plain narrative — never see even an elementary trait of painting... | |
 | Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon, Samuel George Morton - African Americans - 1854 - 800 pages
...!) ethnography might begin with Mr. Jefferson's. His Notes on Virginia contain this sentence : — " Never yet could I find that a Black had uttered a thought above the level of plain aarration ; never saw even an elementary trait of painting or of sculpture." I have looked in vain,... | |
 | Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon - Anthropology - 1855 - 828 pages
...!) ethnography might begin with Mr. Jefferson's. His Notes on Virginia contain this sentence : — " Never yet could I find that a Black had uttered a...never saw even an elementary trait of painting or of sculpture." I have looked in vain, during twenty years, for a solitary exception to these characteristic... | |
 | Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - History - 1858 - 298 pages
...refresh his 1 Quoted by Nott, Types of Mankind, 462. 2 See his Notes on Virginia, where he says, " Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a...even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture." memory as to some previous knowledge. 1 He is imitative, sometimes eminently so, but his mind is never... | |
 | Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - Slavery - 1858 - 612 pages
...Society, p. 28. 1 Quoted by Nott, Types of Mankind, 462. 3 See his Notes on Virginia, where he says, " Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a...even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture." him, whether in a state of bondage or in his native wilds, exhibits such a weakness of intellect that,... | |
 | Medicine - 1858 - 642 pages
...into the world of intellect and reason."1 Mr. Jefferson's Notes on Virginia contains this sentence: "Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a...never saw even an elementary trait of painting or of sculpture." This low grade of intellect which we have shown that the negro possesses, and, above... | |
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They astonish you with strokes of the most sublime oratory; such as prove their reason and sentiment strong, their imagination glowing and elevated. But never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never... 
